Here’s the updated WTC 2023-25 points table after India loses the Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia



The points table ICC World Test Championship 2023-25 currently looks a lot clearer after India lost the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 to Australia. The leaderboard of the WTC table is determined through Percentage System (PCT) points.

South Africa vs Australia showdown at the Lord’s

As Australia clinched a historic win in the SCG Test to secure the Border-Gavaskar Trophy after 10 years, the two teams for the coveted ICC WTC finals are now decided. South Africa currently sits at the top of the table with 66.670 points. The Proteas managed to secure 7 wins and 3 draws in the current cycle with a total of 11 matches they have played. The only match the South Africans lost in the cycle till now was against India in the Freedom Trophy back in January 2024. The South African team is currently playing a 2-match Test series against Pakistan on their home soil.

The road to finals for the Aussies has not been as smooth as the Proteas, but the Australian team proved their mettle and earned their spot the hard way during the course of the cycle. The Australians managed to draw the 2023 Ashes against England and the Frank Worrell Trophy against the West Indies. However, the Australian team gained important points for the WTC cycle by a clean sweep in the Benaud-Qadir Trophy against Pakistan and Trans-Tasman Trophy against New Zealand. The Australian critically needed to win the Border-Gavaskar Trophy to reach the WTC finals and the former champions managed to do just that by defeating India 3-1 in the series. Australia are yet to play Sri Lanka in the current cycle.

Notably, the two finalists, South Africa and Australia have not played against each other in the current WTC cycle.

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India gets the third place in the current WTC cycle

The stark decline of the Indian team in the longest format of the game is evident not just with their performance in the recent series loss against Australia, but also from the fact that India, the two-time WTC runner-up has failed to reach the finals of the prestigious title and could only get the No.3 in the league table.

India had played all its matches in the current cycle and with 9 wins and 8 losses only managed to garner 50 PCT points. A clean-sweep against New Zealand and the recent 3-1 defeat in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy had hurt the Indian prospects of going to the WTC finals the most. The Kiwis are behind India in the league table with 48.210 PCT points followed by Sri Lanka, England, Bangladesh, Pakistan and West Indies.

The 2025-27 cycle of the World Test Championship is set to begin in June this year as England take on India for a 5-match Test series on their home soil.

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