How WTC Percentage Points Calculated: Australia defeated India 3-1 in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. After this victory, Australia confirmed its place in the World Test Championship final. Earlier, by defeating Pakistan, South Africa became the first team to reach the World Test Championship final. However, will the final of the World Test Championship be played between these two teams? But have you ever wondered how teams get points for the World Test Championship? If it is understood in simple language then points, rankings, percentage points and docked points are made the basis.
This is how points are distributed
After winning a team gets 12 points, but if the match is a draw then 4-4 points are distributed between the two teams. What happens if the Test ends in a tie? Actually, if the test ends in a tie then both the teams get 6-6 points. Apart from this, if any team is found guilty due to slow over rate then its 1 point is deducted. But the most important among all these is percentage points. Mainly on the basis of this, teams get rankings. Now the question is, on what basis are percentage points given to a team?
It’s all a game of percentage points…
Percentage points are calculated by dividing the total points scored by a team by the points scored by them in all the matches. Actually, this calculation was beyond the understanding of cricketers except fans in the initial days. Even England’s legendary cricketer Ben Stokes had said that this calculation is not easy to understand. But now it is believed that with the passage of time, apart from the fans, cricketers are also able to understand the calculation of percentage points easily. However, the calculation of percentage points still remains an incomprehensible puzzle for a large number of fans.
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