Team India under the leadership of Rohit Sharma cleaned up Sri Lanka in the Test series. They won the first Test of the series by an innings and 222 runs. In the second match (Pink Ball Test) he won by 238 runs. With this victory, Team India reached number four in the points table of the ICC World Test Championship 2021-23. Before that she was at number five. At the same time, India’s experienced spinner Ravichandran Ashwin became the first bowler to score a century of wickets in the World Test Championship.
Team India now has 77 points in the latest points table released by the ICC and its percentile is 58.33. In the World Test Championship 2021-23, the Indian team has played 4 series so far. In this, he has so far won 6 out of 12 matches, while playing 2 draws, while one match was inconclusive. He has lost three Tests. Before the Pink Ball Test, Team India’s percentile was 54.16 and Sri Lanka’s was 66.66. After the Pink Ball Test, Sri Lanka has now slipped to number five, while it was at number three before. Now his percentile is 50.
Australia is at the top of the points table for the World Test Championship (WTC) 2021-23. Pakistan is second and South Africa is at number three. Australia’s percentile is 77.77, Pakistan’s 66.66 and South Africa’s 60. India now has only 7 matches left in the World Test Championship 2021-23. One match he has to play in England. He has to play a two-Test series in Bangladesh. At the same time, on the home ground, he has to play a series of 4 Test matches against Australia.
Test series against Sri Lanka Ravichandran Ashwin He took 12 wickets. He left behind Indian legend Kapil Dev and then former South African fast bowler Dale Steyn during the series. He took 6 wickets in the Pink Ball Test. As soon as he took 6 wickets, he made another record in his name.
Ravichandran Ashwin Became the first bowler to take 100 wickets in both the cycles (2019-21 and 2021-23) of the World Test Championship. Ashwin took the highest 71 wickets in WTC 2019-21. He has so far taken 29 wickets in the World Test Championship 2021-23.
In this way, the number of wickets in Ashwin’s World Test Championship has gone up to 100. After Ashwin in this list, Australia’s Pat Cummins (93), England’s Stuart Broad (83), New Zealand’s Tim Southee (80), Jasprit Bumrah (74) and Australia’s Nathan Lyon (74).