India: Team India under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma suffered their first-ever home Test-Series whitewash in a three-match Test-Series, losing the 3rd and final Test-Match at Wankhede Cricket Stadium of Mumbai by a margin of 25 runs on Sunday 3rd of November.
Last week in the city of Pune, the Black Caps became just the third team after Australia in 2004 and England in 2012 to execute a Test-Series victory versus India in India in the 21st-century since the 1st of January, 2001.
Following their defeat in the Mumbai Test Match, the Men in Blue have dropped from the first position to the second rank in the overall standings of WTC, with their PCT dropping to 58.33, falling behind reigning-champions Australia who have a better PCT of 62.5.
New Zealand on the other hand have jumped from the fifth spot to the fourth position, with their PCT increasing to 54.54 from 50, slightly above South Africa’s PCT of 54.17 and less than the PCT of Sri Lanka (55.54).
With India dropping to the second place, Sri Lanka in third position, New Zealand in fourth, and South Africa in fifth spot, separated by a PCT of less than 4.5, this outcome has now produced a logjam in the middle portion of the points table.
The Rohit Sharma-led team cannot afford to suffer another defeat in their remaining five Test-Matches if they want to qualify for the final of WTC. By winning all five matches in the Border Gavaskar 2024 series versus Australia, the two time runners up can reach a maximum points tally of 158 points with a maximum PCT of 69.29.
Updated WTC Points-Table Following New Zealand’s historic series white wash over India
| Pos. | Team | Matches | Ded. | PTS contested | Points | PCT | |||
| P | W | L | D | ||||||
| 1 | Australia | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 144 | 90 | 62.5 |
| 2 | India | 14 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 168 | 98 | 58.33 |
| 3 | Sri Lanka | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 108 | 60 | 55.56 |
| 4 | New Zealand | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 132 | 72 | 54.54 |
| 5 | South Africa | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 96 | 52 | 54.16 |
| 6 | England | 19 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 19 | 228 | 93 | 40.79 |
| 7 | Pakistan | 10 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 120 | 40 | 33.33 |
| 8 | Bangladesh | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 120 | 33 | 27.5 |
| 9 | West Indies | 9 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 108 | 20 | 18.52 |
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