World Test Championship Points Table Updated After ENG vs WI 3rd Test; England Improving Their PCT With Big Impressions
World Test Championship Points Table 2023-25: England clean sweep West Indies in a three-match test series with a win in the final test match by 10 wickets. This win also pushed England's PCT up and they are now close to that of Pakistan. This post reads the World Test Championship Points Table Updated After ENG vs WI 3rd Test.
Dominant England are back on business with their special brand of test cricket and the restart went quite smoothly and eye-catching. Aggressive shows by batters and attacking bowling tactics have been key for England in the past couple of years if we exclude the Ashes and India series.
West Indies showed great fights in the first two tests but defeating England in England is not a cakewalk. The third test was supposed to be even as the Edgebaston was supposed to favor West Indies bowlers as well, but England were really invincible.
Winning the toss, West Indies opted to bat first. Skipper Brathwaite played a heroic innings at the top against a swinging ball. The opening of the West Indies innings was pretty solid and then the English bowlers came back to the game with three wickets under 22 runs.
Jason Holder and Joshua da Silva played saviors for the West Indies and following their contribution down the order, WI posted 282 in the first innings. Gus Atkinson shone again for England and took another four-wicket haul.
England lost 3 wickets till the Stumps on Day 1 at just 31 runs and looked on the back foot. They also lost Pope and Brook early the next morning. It was Stokes and Root's partnership that took the momentum back to England's camp. The rookie Wicketkeeper batter Jimmie Smith and Woakes also contributed with big half-centuries.
England took the lead of 92 runs in the first innings. West Indies gave it up their all to overturn the lead but it took a lot of wickets from them and they could give only an 82-run target to England.
Stokes came to open with Ben Duckett and he bashed and slashed the WI bowlers all around the park to post the record-breaking 24-ball fifty. England won the game in just 7.2 overs and sealed the series 3-0. Let's take a look at the ICC World Test Championship Points table after the ENG vs WI 3rd Test:
World Test Championship Points Table After ENG vs WI 3rd Test
England are still at 6th spot. They have won three matches on a run and still, they are suffering for the top 5 spots. This tells how bad the Ashes and the India Tour were for them. They are sixth with 6 wins in 13 matches and their PCT points are 36.54. They are trailing Pakistan by 0.12 PCT.
West Indies on the other hand started this series from the 7th spot and have slept down to the bottommost rank of the table with a PCT of less than 20.
India are still leading the chart as India and Australia don't have any red ball series in the present times. New Zealand and Sri Lanka are at 50 PCT points and sitting at 3rd and 4th spots, respectively.
World Test Championship Points Table
| POS | TEAM | MAT | WON | LOST | DRAW | DED(-) | POINTS | PCT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | INDIA | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 74 | 68.52 |
| 2 | AUSTRALIA | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 90 | 62.50 |
| 3 | NEW ZEALAND | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 50.00 |
| 4 | SRI LANKA | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 50.00 |
| 5 | PAKISTAN | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 22 | 36.66 |
| 6 | ENGLAND | 13 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 19 | 57 | 36.54 |
| 7 | SOUTH AFRICA | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 25.00 |
| 8 | BANGLADESH | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 25.00 |
| 9 | WEST INDIES | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 19.05 |
SOURCE- ICC OFFICIAL WEBSITE
