After a valiant 2-2 series draw against England away from home, Shubman Gill started his first home Test series as a captain with a 2-0 clean sweep of West Indies, as India beat the Roston Chase side comfortably by seven wickets in the New Delhi Test on Tuesday.
Chasing 121, opener KL Rahul guided the home side with a quality half-century before Kuldeep Yadav wreaked havoc with the ball in the first innings. Ravindra Jadeja was awarded the Player of the Series award for his brilliant all-round show.
The standings remain unchanged after the second Test in New Delhi, but third-placed India’s points percentage (PCT) has gone up to 61.90. The PCT was at 55.56 after the Ahmedabad Test, where India won the match by an innings and 140 runs to get 12 points.
Now, after gaining 24 points from 2 Tests, India has been pushed closer to second-placed Sri Lanka’s 66.67. The PCT is the percentage of points won out of the number of points that a team has contested for. Meanwhile, Australia (100.00 PCT) remain top of the table, having won all three Tests they have played thus far. Sri Lanka is second after winning the two-match Test series against Bangladesh 1-0.
India has now won four of the seven Tests they have played in this cycle. England (43.33) is fourth with two wins, two draws and a loss in five Tests, while Bangladesh (16.67) are fifth with one draw and one loss in two Tests. The West Indies (0) are sixth, having lost all five Tests they have played thus far in this cycle. New Zealand, Pakistan and South Africa are yet to start their new WTC cycles. The first Test between South Africa and Pakistan is underway.
