{"id":3115,"date":"2022-01-15T12:48:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T07:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=181186"},"modified":"2022-01-15T12:48:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T07:18:25","slug":"india-slips-to-5th-position-in-the-wtc-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/india-slips-to-5th-position-in-the-wtc-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"India slips to 5th position in the WTC Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s seven-wicket loss to the Proteas in the series-deciding final test match has cost them their top 4 positions in the World Test Championship Rankings and has slipped to number 5 in the table.<\/p>\n<p>India who was the runner-up of the first edition of the WTC is in the fifth position in the second cycle with a PCT of\u00a0 49.07 which is taken into account rather than the points earned. India has played 9 Tests in the second cycle of Wtc, losing 3, winning 4, and drawing two.<\/p>\n<p>They have collected 53 points which is the highest amongst the other teams in the table to date.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">South Africa\u2019s brilliant series win has placed them nicely in the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WTC23?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WTC23<\/a> standings \ud83d\udcc8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SJkLtZVpUS\">pic.twitter.com\/SJkLtZVpUS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ICC (@ICC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ICC\/status\/1481961217786798082?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 14, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>After the second Test India was placed in the fourth position in the table with a PCT of 55.21 and the Proteas were one step behind with a PCT of 50.<\/p>\n<p>But the win at the last Test at Newlands has made Sout Africa swap places with India taking them to fourth in the table and now has a (PCT of 66.66).<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the table-toppers are Srilanka with a PCT of 100 followed by the Aussies (83.33) and then Pakistan (75).<\/p>\n<p>The current champions New Zealand, who drew their two-match Test series against Bangladesh at home soil earlier this week are placed at the sixth position in the table with a PCT of 33.33<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India slips to 5th place in the World Test Championship after the series lost in South Africa. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249,"featured_media":26195,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1386,2194,1415,1264,1470],"class_list":["post-3115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-australia-cricket-team","tag-icc-world-test-championship","tag-new-zealand-cricket","tag-pakistan-cricket-team","tag-south-africa-cricket"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}