The race for the final of the World Test Championship 2023-25 ​​has become very exciting. India, Australia, South Africa, Sri Lanka and New Zealand remain contenders to reach the final. Recently, Team India defeated Australia in the Perth Test and secured the first position in the points table. But now Australia has suffered another big blow. Now she is out of the top-2 also. At the same time, one team has moved straight from 5th to second position. That means this team has taken a huge leap in the race for the finals.

Big change in the race for WTC final

Sri Lankan team is currently on the tour of South Africa. A 2-match test series is being played between the two teams. The first match of the series was played at Kingsmead Derby. In this match, South African team won by 233 runs. With this victory, South Africa has completely changed the points table of the World Test Championship. South Africa has now come at second position with 5 wins and 3 losses in 9 matches. His percentage points have now become 59.25. Due to which the Australian team has lagged behind them.

On the other hand, Sri Lankan team has moved from 3rd to 5th position. This is his 5th defeat in 10 test matches. In such a situation, now his percentage points have become 50.00, which earlier was 55.56. Apart from this, Team India remains on top with 9 wins in 15 matches and 61.11 percentage points. However, the Australian team has now come at third position with 8 wins in 13 matches and 57.69 percentage points. This means that South Africa is now going to have a chance to overtake Team India. In such a situation, Team India will have to win the Adelaide Test at any cost.

South Africa won in a one-sided manner

The South African team had scored 191 runs in the first innings of this match. In response, the Sri Lankan team could play only 13.5 overs in the first innings of this match and collapsed after scoring 42 runs. After this, South Africa batted brilliantly in the second innings and declared the innings after scoring 366 runs at the loss of 5 wickets, in such a situation, Sri Lanka had a target of 516 runs to win the match. But in response, the Sri Lankan team was all out after scoring 282 runs and lost by 233 runs.