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25 Sep 2024

List Of Batters Who Have Most Runs In The ICC World Test Championship 2023-25

As of now, Jaiswal has scored 1,094 runs in 10 Tests with 3 centuries and 5 fifties.

07 Jun 2023

India Players Get Emotional After Wearing Arm Bands For Odisha Train Victims

The PA system announced that there will be a moment of silence to remember the victims of the train accident in Balasore which took place last week on Friday

06 Jun 2023

WATCH: Shubman Gill’s ‘Romantic’ Date With Social Media Influencer Goes Viral

Team India opener Shubman Gill is getting ready to face Australia in the World Test Championship (WTC) Final beginning on Wednesday.

05 Jun 2023

WTC Final: Monkeygate to Siraj's Racial Abuse incident, Top Controversies

India and Australia will be facing off against eaching other in the World Test Championship Final at the Oval in London from Wednesday. In these collection of pictures, we take a look at some of the biggest controversies in India vs Australia Tests.

05 Jun 2023

WTC Final: BIG Blow For Team India, THIS Batter Gets Injured In The Nets

Team India wicketkeeper Ishan Kishan was hit by a rising delivery from Aniket Chowdhury in the net session at the Oval ahead of WTC Final.

05 Jun 2023

WTC Final: Rohit Sharma Reveals Secret To Success As Multi-Format Player

Rohit Sharma's Team India will take on Australia in the World Test Championship Final starting at the Oval in London on Monday.

India vs Sri Lanka 2022

03 Mar 2022

New Test captain Rohit Sharma wants to take Virat Kohli’s legacy forward

India are currently in 5th position in the World Test Championships (WTC) after losing their last Test series against South Africa 2-1 earlier this year.

06 Dec 2021

Kohli says ‘we can’t keep winning 12 months in a year’ after win over NZ

Virat Kohli became the first international player to win 50 games at least in all formats of the game after Team India's 372-run win over New Zealand in the second Test in Mumbai.

World Test Championships

25 Aug 2021

World Test Championships Table: Kohli’s India take top spot ahead of Pakistan

Pakistan on Tuesday (August 24) levelled the two-match series and claimed 12 World Test Championship points after dismissing the West Indies for 219 on day five at Sabina Park. India will begin the third Test against England at Headingley in Leeds on Wednesday (August 25).

World Test Championships

14 Jul 2021

World Test Championships: We will regroup with new energy, says Kohli

Reigning champion New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson said WTC has revived people’s interest in the traditional format of the game The nine Test teams will play a total of six series – three home and three away just like the previous edition. Apart from the India-England series, the Ashes later this year will be the only other five-match affair in the second cycle which will end in June 2023.

World Test Championships

20 Apr 2021

COVID-19: WTC final on schedule even after UK puts India on travel ‘red list’

There is also concern about how the inclusion of India in the ‘red list’ will impact the England and New Zealand cricketers who are currently playing in the IPL and intend to fly to the UK for the two-match Test series between the two countries that starts at the Lord’s on June 2. The IPL will conclude on May 30 with the summit clash scheduled in Ahmedabad. India has reported 2,59,170 new positive cases in last 24 hours, the highest single-day surge, taking the country’s COVID-19 caseload past the 1.5 crore mark.

World Test Championships

05 Mar 2021

World Test Championships: Rohit becomes 2nd Indian to get this BIG record

Rohit’s Mumbai teammate and India vice-captain Ajinkya Rahane is the only other Indian batsman with over 1,000 runs in the WTC. Rahane has achieved this mark in 17 games with three hundreds and six fifties at an average of 44.58. The leading run-scorer in the WTC is Australia’s Marnus Labuschagne, who has piled up 1,675 runs at an average of 72.82 with five hundreds.

01 Mar 2021

Asia Cup will be postponed to 2023 if India make WTC final: PCB chief

Pakistan was the host of the Asia Cup but due to political tensions with India, they were forced to surrender the hosting rights to Sri Lanka. The PCB chairman also talked about getting the written assurance from the BCCI by next month for Pakistan players, officials, fans and journalists’ visas for the upcoming T20 World Cup in India. The World Test Championship (WTC) final is slated at Lord’s from June 18-22 and it is expected to clash with the Asia Cup 2021 schedule.

India vs England

26 Feb 2021

India zoom to top of WTC table, find out what they need to reach final

India have a solid winning percentage of 71 and have accumulated 490 points so far after the pink-ball Test. New Zealand, who have a total of 420 points, have participated in five series under WTC – won seven matches and lost four. Australia occupy the third position in the ICC World Test Championship points table with 332 points and 69.2 percentage.

India vs England

16 Feb 2021

WTC Final: THIS is India’s new ranking after win over England

New Zealand have 70.0 PCT and 420 points. India, who had lost the first Test by 227 runs at the same venue, need to win the one more and at least drawn another to make it to the WTC final. Australia are at the third spot with 69.2 PCT and 332 points while England are fourth with 67.0 PCT and 442 points. The third Test -- a day/night affair -- begins in Ahmedabad on February 24. Virat Kohli’s men are currently playing in their sixth series of the WTC cycle, having won 10 matches, lost four and drawn one.

India vs England

10 Feb 2021

Virat Kohli takes a dig at ICC for changing WTC points system

India slumped to fourth spot in the latest ICC World Test Championship points table after losing the first Test by 227 runs against England. The ICC Cricket Committee, led by former India captain Anil Kumble, decided during the coronavirus-forced lockdown last year that the WTC league standings would be determined by the percentage of points (PCT) earned by teams. PCT is the percentage of points won out of the total number of points contested by each team.

India vs England

03 Feb 2021

World Test Championships scenarios: How India can make the final

India have to win by 2-0, 2-1, 3-0, 3-1, 4-0. Any other result and they will have to bid goodbye to their chances. Like India, England too have just one series remaining. They are high on confidence having just clean swept Sri Lanka 2-0 in a Test series with their pacers and spinners putting up impressive show. Pulling out of the South Africa tour means Australia have no more series left.

World Test Championships

03 Feb 2021

Offered to host SA Test series in Australia, but CSA declined: CEO Hockley

Australia was docked four points from their WTC points tally due to a slow over-rate during the Melbourne Test against India. If this wasn’t the case, Australia would have been levelled on percentage points with New Zealand. Cricket Australia has also clarified that it would not be asking the ICC to delay the WTC final and as a result, the fate of Tim Paine’s side reaching the final depends on the upcoming four-match Test series between India and England.

India vs South Africa

22 Oct 2019

Have to be multi-dimensional to be world best, says Virat Kohli

India are now scheduled to play Bangladesh in three-T20I and two-Test series beginning November 3.

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