WTC: India suffered their archetypal Test bid decision astatine location since 2012 connected Saturday. (BCCI)
India suffered a crushing 113-run decision to New Zealand successful the 2nd Test successful Pune, dropping important ICC World Test Championship (WTC) points and besides conceding their archetypal Test bid decision connected location ungraded since 2012.
Saturday’s nonaccomplishment was the archetypal clip India endured consecutive defeats to New Zealand astatine home. The BlackCaps person go lone the 3rd squad aft Australia (2004) and England (2012) to grounds a Test bid triumph successful India successful the 21st century.
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India’s WTC points PCT slipped down from 68.06 to 62.82, holding lone a marginal pb implicit defending champions Australia, who are placed with a PCT of 62.5. India person six much matches this cycle, 1 against New Zealand successful Mumbai and 5 successful the Border Gavaskar Trophy successful Australia.
On Day 2, India were bowled retired for 156 successful reply to New Zealand’s 259. Left-arm spinner Mitchell Santner wreaked havoc with his career-best figures of 7/53. The visitors past acceptable up a 359-run people connected the backmost of skipper Tom Latham’s 86. While Yashasvi Jaiswal provided a beardown commencement to the chase, India were yet dismissed for a harrowing bid defeat.
Rohit Sharma’s broadside cannot spend different nonaccomplishment oregon much than 1 gully successful their remaining games to scope the WTC last connected their ain terms.
WTC 2023-25 updated points table aft IND vs NZ 2nd Test
Pos. |
Team |
Matches |
Points Ded. |
Contested |
Points |
PCT |
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P | W | L | D | ||||||
1 | India | 13 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 156 | 98 | 62.82 |
2 | Australia | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 144 | 90 | 62.5 |
3 | Sri Lanka | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 108 | 60 | 55.56 |
4 | New Zealand | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 120 | 60 | 50 |
5 | South Africa | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 84 | 40 | 47.62 |
6 | England | 19 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 19 | 228 | 93 | 40.79 |
7 | Pakistan | 9 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 120 | 40 | 33.33 |
8 | Bangladesh | 9 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 108 | 33 | 30.56 |
9 | West Indies | 9 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 108 | 20 | 18.52 |