ICC WTC Points Table 2025-27: Updated Standings After PAK vs SA 1st Test And IND vs WI Series

Updated ICC World Test Championship Points Table: Pakistan's 93 run victory over South Africa in the 1st Test at Lahore has helped the Shan Masood-led side jump to the second spot in the World Test Championship standings. With a win percentage of 100 and 12 points, Pakistan surged past Bangladesh, England, India and Sri Lanka.

The current WTC champions, South Africa, are in seventh position on the points table and will hope to add some points to their account when they face Pakistan in the 2nd Test of the series at Rawalpindi, starting Oct. 20.

Earlier this week, the West Indies put up an encouraging fight, but India were still too good as whitewashed the visitors in the two-Test match series. Shubman Gill's men overcame a little scare after two fantastic centuries by John Campbell and Shai Hope in the second innings of the Test in Delhi. They chased down the target of 121 with seven wickets in hand on Tuesday.

Enforcing the follow-on after mounting a huge score of 518/5 declared and dismissing the West Indies for 248, India would've backed themselves to bundle out the opposition again. But a gritty third-wicket partnership between Campbell (115) and Hope (103) forced the great Indian attack to dig deep into their resolve on a slow-paced surface at the Arun Jaitley Stadium. 

With great odds staked against them, the West Indies managed to overhaul the 270-run deficit and forced India to bat again. But just when the visitors would've felt confident of creating some jitters in the home team's dressing room, the Indian bowlers fought back and took six wickets in a crucial post-lunch session on Day 4. Kuldeep Yadav (3/104) and Jasprit Bumrah (3/44) led the pack with three wickets apiece, while Mohammed Siraj ended up taking 2 for 43.

Reeling at 9 down with only 41 ahead, West Indies found their glimmer of hope with a resilient 10th wicket stand between Justin Greaves (50) and Jayden Seales (32), who frustrated India and took the tourists to 390 all out, their highest Test score against the subcontinent giants since 2011. But the target of 121 was never going to be enough, as calming and skilful knocks from opener KL Rahul (58*) and No.3 Sai Sudharsan (39) took India home.

India's twin victories over the West Indies in Ahmedabad and Delhi on the back of their highly encouraging 2-2 series draw in England bolstered their chances in the 2025-27 ICC World Test Championship.

Having also famously won in Edgbaston and The Oval, India are now placed fourth in the nine-team points table for the ongoing cycle with 61.90 per cent of the contested points won. 

Gill and company are behind former Test championship winners Australia (100%), Pakistan (100%) and Sri Lanka (66.67%).

Elsewhere, Bangladesh (16.67%) occupy the sixth spot, while the West Indies continue to languish at eight after five defeats in a row at the start of the new two-year cycle, including a 3-0 whitewash at the hands of Australia. 

The 2021 champions, New Zealand, have yet not started their campaign.

Points System:

• 12 points for a win

• 6 points for a tie

• 4 points for a draw

• Teams are ranked according to the percentage of points won.

• The Top two teams progress to the final in 2027.

• Point Deductions: Points are deducted for slow over rates