WTC Points Table: Sri Lanka on top – Australia’s fantastic 9-wicket victory over England in the 1st Ashes Test in Brisbane powered them to the second spot World Test Championship points table. That meant, Virat Kohli’s Team India slipped to the 4th spot with 58.33 percentage points. Joe Root’s England also suffered further blow after they were docked five points for slow over-rate. Follow Ashes 2021 LIVE Updates on InsideSport.IN
Sri Lanka are currently on top with a hundred per cent record having won both Test matches against West Indies. Australia share a 100% record with Sri Lanka. But they have 12 points to Sri Lanka’s 24.
WTC Points Table: Australia climb to 2nd spot, Sri Lanka on top as India, England slip in World Test Championship table – Check details
Joe Root’s England suffered another blow after ICC penalised the team for slow over-rate. For repeated offences, they were docked five points. Joe Root & Co were punished for slow over-rate during their series against India. The punishment means, England now only have nine points with 15.00 percentage points. They are at 7th place only ahead of Bangladesh.
Babar Azam-led Pakistan are currently at the third spot with 75 percentage points having won three and lost one. Their 2-0 whitewash of Bangladesh helped in the quest.
Ashes 2021: Australia beat England – As for Pat Cummins-led Australia thrashed beating England by 9 wickets in the 1st Test at Gabba, dominating proceedings from Day 1. The hosts were set a target of just 20 to win the match after lunch following yet another batting collapse from England which saw the final eight wickets fall for just 74 runs.
WTC Points Table: Australia climb to 2nd spot, Sri Lanka on top as India, England slip in World Test Championship table – Check details
Alex Carey opened the batting as David Warner didn’t pad up after sitting out the whole of England’s second innings with severely bruised ribs, but he was dismissed by Ollie Robinson.
Earlier, England batting completely collapsed on Day 4 as they lost all 8 wickets for the addition of just 77 runs. Nathan Lyon was the wrecker in chief as he picked 4 wickets and surpassed 400 wicket landmark.
The Aussies started Day 4 of the Ashes 1st Test on a great note. In the first 30 mins of the play itself, both overnight batsman Dawid Malan & captain Joe Root were sent back to the pavilion. Nathan Lyon got his wicket no. 400th as he got Malan out to end 162 Runs partnership.
WTC Points Table: Australia climb to 2nd spot, Sri Lanka on top as India, England slip in World Test Championship table – Check details
As for the World Test Championship, top two teams at the end of 2021-23 cycle will play the WTC Final. New Zealand are the current holder having won the WTC Final 2021 against India.
World Test Championship 2021-23 – Points distribution
| Points available per match | Percentage of points* | |
| Win | 12 | 100 |
| Tie | 6 | 50 |
| Draw | 4 | 33.33 |
| Loss | 0 | 0 |
* Teams will be ranked on percentage of points won
Points available per series
| Matches in series | Total points available |
| 2 | 24 |
| 3 | 36 |
| 4 | 48 |
| 5 | 60 |
* For slow over-rates teams will lose one championship point for each over short.
WTC Points Table: Australia climb to 2nd spot, Sri Lanka on top as India, England slip in World Test Championship table – Check details
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