World Test Championship 2021-23 to start with India-England sequence, 12 factors for every win
The International Cricket Council (ICC) will award standardised 12 factors for each match received throughout the second World Test Championships cycle which kicks off with the five-match sequence between India and England in August.
Teams will get six factors in case of a tie and 4 factors if the match ends in a draw.That there could be adjustments to the factors system was first declared by ICC interim CEO Geoff Allardice throughout a media interplay earlier this month.”Instead of each series being worth the same number of points, 120, irrespective of whether the series is played over two Tests or five Tests, the next cycle will see each match being worth the same number of points – a maximum of 12 per match,” an ICC board member informed PTI.”Teams will be ranked on the percentage of available points they won from the matches they have played.”‘;AIm was to try to simplify factors system’The adjustments within the factors system must be ratified by the ICC chief executives committee within the coming weeks.”The aim was to try and simplify the points system and to allow teams to be meaningfully compared on the table at any point, though they may have played differing numbers of matches and series,” the Board member added.Apart from the India-England sequence, the Ashes later this 12 months would be the solely different five-match affair within the second cycle which can finish in June 2023.Australia’s tour of India subsequent 12 months is the one four-Test sequence within the upcoming cycle.The 9 Test groups will play a complete of six sequence: three house and three away identical to the earlier version.In the inaugural version, which New Zealand received after defeating India within the last earlier this month, the ICC had modified the qualification standards for the World Test Championship from most factors earned to proportion factors earned from the matches contested after many scheduled sequence had been cancelled because of COVID-19.During the final cycle, the worth for every sequence was 120 factors the place a two-match India-Bangladesh sequence had 60 factors for a win whereas a four-match India-Australia Test sequence had 30 factors in retailer per victory.”England will play the most Tests (21) in WTC-2 followed by India (19), Australia (18) and South Africa (15). The inaugural WTC winners New Zealand will play only 13 matches, similar to that of West Indies and Sri Lanka, but one less than Pakistan (14),” ESPNcricinfo reported.
