England and Australia had factors deducted from their tally because of a sluggish over-rate within the Ashes collection, which has affected the World Take a look at Championship (WTC) 2023-25 standings. As per ICC, the hole on the prime of the ICC World Take a look at Championship standings has additional widened considerably after England and Australia have been hit with sanctions on the finish of the Ashes. England have been docked 19 factors and Australia 10 factors as a penalty for sluggish over-rate throughout the collection as they fell additional down the WTC25 standings.
Because of this, Asian neighbours Pakistan and India cleared the path within the standings, firmly occupying the highest two spots after an unbeaten begin to WTC25.
Pakistan have made an ideal begin to the 2023-25 marketing campaign with a degree share of 100 after their clear sweep towards Sri Lanka. After a carefully fought first Take a look at, Babar Azam’s males dominated the hosts with a thumping innings victory within the second Take a look at to seal a 2-Zero collection win.
Saud Shakeel (295 runs in three innings together with a double century), Agha Salman (221 runs in three innings with one century, fifty), Abdullah Shafique (228 runs in three innings together with a double century), Abrar Ahmed (10 wickets) and Naseem Shah (9 wickets) have been a number of the stars for Pakistan all through the collection.
Carefully tailing them are India within the second spot with 66.66 per cent, who’ve a win and a draw towards their identify after their collection towards West Indies. India set the tone with a large innings win within the first Take a look at however rain dampened their hopes of a clear sweep within the second Take a look at that resulted in stalemate.
Debutant Yashasvi Jaiswal (266 runs in three innings together with a century, fifty), Rohit Sharma (240 runs in three innings, together with a century, two fifties), Virat Kohli (197 runs in two innings together with a century and fifty), Ravichandran Ashwin (15 wickets and one half-century) and Ravindra Jadeja (seven wickets and one half-century) have been the highest performers for India.
Earlier than the sanctions, England and Australia had 26 factors every and a degree share of 43.33. After the penalties, Australia dropped to 30 per cent whereas England plummeted to 15 per cent, taking them under West Indies at 16.67 per cent.
Having been whitewashed 2-Zero at residence, Sri Lanka are on the backside with Zero factors. Bangladesh, New Zealand and South Africa are but to kickstart their marketing campaign within the present iteration of the World Take a look at Championship.
Including to the distress, Australia misplaced their prime spot within the ICC Males’s Take a look at Rankings as England made a powerful comeback from 2-Zero to 2-2 within the Ashes. Tied on 118 factors, India are on prime on decimal factors (118.four factors) as Australia (117.8) drop to second.
England are closing in on prime after gaining one level from the drawn collection, shifting to 115 factors.
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