Delhi: Due to South Africa’s victory and Pakistan’s defeat, the Indian cricket team has slipped to third place in the ICC Test rankings. South Africa has now reached second place. This is the first time since 2016 that the Indian team has come third. Apart from this, South Africa has reached the top in the World Test Championship (WTC) points table.
Australia remains on top
After this victory of South Africa, their rating has increased to 112 and the team has a total of 3355 points. However, the Australian team still remains in first place. The rating of the Australian team that defeated the Indian team in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 is 126 and they have a total of 4531 points.
Indian team statistics
Indian team currently has 109 rating points and total points are 4248. At the same time, England is at fourth position with 106 rating points and New Zealand is at fifth position with 96 rating points.
South Africa’s win in Cape Town ensures that they’ll finish as the leaders of the #WTC25 standings👊#SAvPAK pic.twitter.com/ROjzzNwaMx
— ICC (@ICC) January 6, 2025
South Africa’s victory against Pakistan
In the second test between South Africa and Pakistan, South Africa won the toss and batted first and scored 615 runs. Pakistan team could score only 194 runs in the first innings. After follow-on, Pakistan scored 478 runs in the second innings, giving South Africa a small target of 58 runs. South Africa achieved this in just 7.1 overs.
The final match of the World Test Championship will be played between South Africa and Australia.
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