The journey of how the first edition of cricket’s World Test Championship (WTC) itself coverd all the drama. Virat Kohli is set to lead India against Kane Williamson’s New Zealand in the final match of the competition that is to be held from 18-22 June in England’s Southampton.
What Is World Test Championship?
The International Cricket Council (ICC) started off the maiden Test competition in August 2019.
The motive behind this event is greater audience interest in the format at a time when T20 has become the most visible and prime-time friendly.
How Many Teams Participated in World Test Championship?
Nine of the ICC’s 12 full member countries Australia, Bangladesh, England, India, Pakistan, New Zealand, South Africa, Sri Lanka and West Indies were in the race to win the crown of being the best Test side on the planet.
What Was The Points System for World Test Championship?
Each of the nine teams in the WTC was originally have played 6 Test series each which would be three at home and three away.
But all Test series do not have a uniform number of matches as the Ashes is a five-match series while the Border-Gavaskar Trophy has four Tests so there was a points system that ICC introduced to bring equality in scores.
Rules for World Test Championship :
There was a total of 120 points up for each series.
In a five-Test series each match was worth 24 points while there were 30 points up for grabs in a four-match series.
If a match was drawn then the two teams would get a third of the points for a win which would be 8 in a five-match series.
In case a match ended in a tie then both teams were to get half the points for a win.
But that was the points system contemplate when the pandemic was yet to hit.
After the coronavirus hits on the scene and disturbed normal life across the world then a new scoring system had to be devised to determine which two teams would play the final.
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Rules after Pandemic Affect The World Test Championship
The six Test series that each team was suppose to have play in the normal plan but coronavirus-induced lockdowns shook up the schedule and many teams were left staring at cancelled, or postponed, Tests.
That brings ICC devising a percentage system to decide the two finalists.
Called the ‘Percentage of Points’, or PoP system, it tracked the proportion of points that a team manage to corner out of the total available to it from the matches it did manage to play.
While India manage to play all the six series it was supposed to and New Zealand could only feature in five Test series.
How India End On The Points Table for World Test Championship?
India only side apart from England and Sri Lanka that completes its schedule of 6 Test series.
India top the points table with a 72.2% PoP.
Out of the possible 720 points that Virat Kohli’s men could win they succeeded in cornering 520.
New Zealand were close behind with 420 points out of a possible 600, or 70% PoP.
India’s World Test Championship began in August 2019 with its tour of West Indies.
India won both the matches in the two-Test series before hosting South Africa for a three-Test series back in India in which it manage to blank the opponents.
After that came two Tests against Bangladesh in India which was whitewash of the visitors.
India’s only series loss in the World Test Championship as New Zealand shocked Virat Kohli’s men in the two Tests they played against the hosts.
It was in the remaining two series that India put in a strong showing, scripting history as they win 2-1 over Australia in a four-match series Down Under before getting the England at home and winning 3-1 in another four-match series.
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