Big update in Icc WTC POINTS TABLE.
Pakistan's team are positioned in ICC WTC on the table with the percentage of first Test against Sri Lanka.
Teams are positioned on the table in accordance with the percentage of points won.
The Pakistan team gets around Noman Ali to celebrate — AFP
Pakistan are joint-top in the ICC World Test Championship points table after their win in the first Test over Sri Lanka in Galle on Thursday.
India and Pakistan have equal number of points, 12, after winning their opening matches in the 2023-25 cycle of the ICC World Test Championship.
with the percentage of points won in order to standardise the imbalance in the number of matches played.
Teams will lose one championship point for each over short during a match.
It must be noted that Pakistan defeated Sri Lanka by four wickets to win the first Test.
The visitors took a 1-0 lead in the two-match series, thanks largely to a brilliant double ton by Saud Shakeel in the first innings.
Pakistan had resumed their run-chase of 131 runs at 48-3 with Babar and Imam-ul-Haq on the crease on the fifth and final day of the match.
Azam scored 24 in 28 balls, with the help of five fours, before being trapped by Prabath Jayasuriya in front of the stumps.
Saud Shakeel also couldn't stay at the crease till the end as he was dismissed after scoring 30 runs in 38 balls.
Imam played an impressive knock and remained unbeaten on 50 runs, which included four fours and a six.
Agha Salman smacked a six on the very first ball he faced to help Pakistan get over the line.
Sri Lanka were dismissed for 279 in their second innings on day four, which meant that Pakistan were set a target of 131 runs to win the match.
Meanwhile, Saud Shakeel notched up his maiden double century in Tests as Pakistan took a 149-run first-innings lead against Sri Lanka in the rain-hit opening match.
"I was just trying to build partnerships, be positive and look for runs," Shakeel said after winning the award for Player of the Match.
"We are skilled in how to play the sweep and reverse sweep shots, and we knew we needed to execute it well. I'm from Karachi and I'm used to playing a lot of spin there,” he added.
