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WTC Final 2025: South Africa has achieved the distinction of becoming Test Champion for the first time by defeating Australia in the final match of the World Test Championship (WTC 2023-25). The South Africa team won this World Test Championip and won an ICC Trophy after 27 years. This historic final match played at Lord’s has proved to be a milestone in South Africa’s cricket history, but despite this memorable victory & nbsp; African team has not been able to get the number 1 chair in the ICC Test rankings.
African team at number 2 even after winning
Recently the ICC has released the Test rankings of the team. According to this ranking, South Africa has definitely got the benefit of one place after winning the final, but the team still remains second. After winning the finals, the team now has 114 rating points. At the same time, the Australian team who lost in the final is at the first position with 123 points. In this way, even after losing the WTC final, the reign of the Australian team is currently intact in the Test rankings.
Status in the Test rankings of England and India
England team is in third place in the ICC Test rankings, which has 113 rating points. This is followed by the Indian team at number four, which has recently lost the Test series to Australia and New Zealand. The Indian team will get a chance to improve their ranking soon, as the five -Test series between India and England is starting from June 20. Team India, captained by Shubman Gill, will not only want to come up in the ICC rankings by winning this series by winning this series but will also want to lay a strong foundation for the future Test Championship.
Test ranking of the rest of the teams
New Zealand team is in fifth place in the Test rankings, while Sri Lanka’s team remains in the sixth and Pakistan team remains in seventh place. The West Indies is at number eight, while Bangladesh’s team is at the ninth position. Ireland is at number 10, which has played only 5 Test matches so far. Afghanistan is ranked 11th and at the bottom 12th place is Zimbabwe’s team.
Although South Africa has given a strong message in the cricket world by becoming champions , but number 1 The path to become After the Test matches, there may be a big change in the Test rankings in the coming months .