India extend lead at No. 1 in the World Test Championship

India have extended their lead at the top of the 2023-25 World Test Championship (WTC) points table by beating England in Dharamsala to win the five-match series 4-1. They will stay at No. 1 irrespective of the result of the ongoing Christchurch Test between New Zealand and Australia, who are second and third respectively in the points table. The 4-1 series win likewise assisted India with overwhelming Australia at the highest point of the ICC's Test rankings and they will stay No. 1 regardless of whether Australia beat New Zealand in Christchurch. India are additionally the highest level ODI and T20I side as of now. India had slipped to fifth spot in the WTC focuses table subsequent to losing the principal Trial of the series against Britain in Hyderabad, however moved back up to No. 1 by winning the following three matches. The innings triumph in Dharamsala stretched out their rate focuses to 68.51%, having procured 74 out of 108 focuses in the wake of playing nine matches (six successes, two losses, one attract) in the continuous WTC cycle. As indicated by the WTC focuses framework, a group gets 12 focuses for a Test win, six for a tie, four for a draw, and nothing for a loss. What's more, they are positioned by the level of focuses won on the grounds that each group plays an alternate number of Tests in the WTC cycle. Focuses are additionally deducted for delayed over rate punishments, which is the reason Britain have just 21 focuses in spite of winning three Tests in this WTC cycle. They have lost 19 focuses for delayed over-rate punishments and are in eighth spot with just 17.5 rate focuses subsequent to playing ten Tests. New Zealand are as of now second with 60% places and Australia are third with 59.09%. Assuming that New Zealand win the continuous Christchurch Test, they will build their rate focuses to 66.67%; and assuming that Australia win, they will push forward of New Zealand on 62.5%. With just a Bangladesh-Sri Lanka Test series to go before the IPL season starts on Walk 22, India are set to stay No. 1 for a couple of months. Bangladesh are as of now fourth in the WTC focuses table, yet they have played just a single series in the continuous cycle, trailed by Pakistan, West Indies, South Africa, Britain and Sri Lanka. The main two groups toward the finish of the WTC cycle will play the last at Master's in June 2025. India had equipped for both the past WTC finals up until this point, however lost to New Zealand in 2021 and Australia in 2023.