India strengthened its position at the top of the WTC table
khaskhabar.com : Tuesday, October 01, 2024 5:46 PM
Kanpur . The 2-0 Test series win against Bangladesh has further strengthened India’s position at the top of the World Test Championship (WTC) standings.
With a seven-wicket win in the Kanpur Test match, India improved its points percentage to 74.24, while after the loss to Bangladesh, it is in seventh place with 34.38 percent. Ahead of the visiting team are South Africa and New Zealand, who are ranked fifth and sixth respectively.
Australia is in second place with a points percentage of 62.50 after eight wins from 12 matches. While Sri Lanka (third), England (fourth) are at the position with percentage of 55.56 and 42.19 points.
Team India clean sweeps the test series against Bangladesh. India remains at number 1 in the World Test Championship and its position has become stronger. India has not lost a Test series at home for the last 12 years and this is the team’s 18th consecutive series win. Kanpur Test was affected by rain for three days but there was record rainfall along with water.
After the second and third days of the Kanpur Test were washed out in rain, it seemed that this match would be a draw but Team India did something on the fourth day which attracted the attention of the whole world to this match. In Test cricket, Team India showed the style of T20 to the cricket fans and won the match which seemed to be a draw in a one-sided fashion and achieved a resounding victory by 7 wickets.
Ravichandran Ashwin was adjudged Player of the Series for his brilliant performance while Yashasvi Jaiswal was adjudged Player of the Match.
–IANS
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