ICC World Test Championship 2025 Points Table

The ICC World Test Championship is a biennial tournament and is the premier championship in the Test format. It is organised by the International Cricket Council.

The first edition of the ICC WTC was played from 2019 to 2021 while the second edition took place from 2021 to 2023. The third edition took place from 2023 to 2025. New Zealand won the inaugural edition of the WTC with an 8-wicket win over India in the final.

In the final of the second edition, Australia beat India by 209 runs to win their maiden WTC title. The third final will be played between Australia and South Africa.

ICC WTC Points Table:

The top nine teams in the ICC Test Rankings are allowed to participate in the WTC. The same nine teams - India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, West Indies, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia and England - have participated in the first three editions of the championship. Zimbabwe, Ireland and Afghanistan are also Test playing nations but are yet to make the cut for the WTC.

In the inaugural WTC cycle, the points were awarded on the basis of the series. For every series, there were 120 points available and those points were distributed evenly over the number of Tests in the series. The governing body of the game had to change the system after a number of series were cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.

The ICC introduced the points percentage system. Later in 2021, the ICC also announced that the teams would earn points on match-to-match basis and not on series-to-series basis. Teams are ranked by the percentage of points won.

A team earns 12 points for winning a match, six for a tie and four for a draw. So a win (12 points) is 100%, a tie (six points) 50% and a draw (four points) 33.3%.

ICC WTC 2019-21 Points Table:

In the inaugural edition of the WTC, India and New Zealand qualified for the final by finishing in the top two. India finished with 72.2 points percentage (PCT) while New Zealand had 70 points percentage. India are still the only team to finish with more than 70 PCT. On the other hand, Bangladesh finished at the bottom of the points table with jut 0.48 PCT.

Rank	Team	Matches	Won	Lost	Drawn	Points	PCT
1	India	17	12	4	1	520	72.2
2	New Zealand	11	7	4	0	420	70
3	Australia	14	8	4	2	332	69.2
4	England	21	11	7	3	442	64.1
5	Pakistan	12	4	5	3	286	43.3
6	West Indies	11	3	6	2	200	33.3
7	South Africa	11	3	8	0	144	30
8	Sri Lanka	12	2	6	4	200	27.8
9	Bangladesh	7	0	6	1	20	0.48

ICC WTC 2021-23 Points Table:

Australia finished at the top of the table in the second WTC cycle, followed by India at the second spot. Australia had 66.67 PCT while India finished with 58.8 PCT. For the second championship in a row, Bangladesh finished at the bottom of the points table with just 11.11 PCT.

Rank	Team	Matches	Won	Lost	Drawn	Points	PCT
1	Australia	19	11	3	5	152	66.67
2	India	18	10	5	3	127	58.8
3	South Africa	15	8	6	1	100	55.56
4	England	22	10	8	4	124	46.97
5	Sri Lanka	12	5	6	1	64	44.44
6	New Zealand	13	4	6	3	60	38.46
7	Pakistan	14	4	6	4	64	38.1
8	West Indies	13	4	7	2	54	34.62
9	Bangladesh	12	1	10	1	16	11.11

ICC WTC 2023-25 Points Table:

South Africa and Australia finished in the top two in the 2023-25 WTC cycle. For the first since the start of the championship, a team finished at the top of the points table despite getting lesser number of points than the team finishing at the second spot.

South Africa finished with 100 points but a 69.44 PCT. On the other hand, Australia had 67.54 PCT even though they collected 154 points. Pakistan finished at the bottom of the points table with 27.98 PCT.

Pos	Team	Matches	Won	Lost	Drawn	NR	Points	PCT
1	South Africa	12	8	3	1	0	100	69.44
2	Australia	19	13	4	2	0	154	67.54
3	India	19	9	8	2	0	114	50
4	New Zealand	14	7	7	0	0	81	48.21
5	England	22	11	10	1	0	114	43.18
6	Sri Lanka	13	5	8	0	0	60	38.46
7	Bangladesh	12	4	8	0	0	45	31.25
8	West Indies	13	3	8	2	0	44	28.21
9	Pakistan	14	5	9	0	0	47	27.98