The ICC on Wednesday formally confirmed that groups might be awarded standardised 12 factors for a win, 4 for a draw and 6 for a tie through the second World Take a look at Championship cycle which kicks off with the five-match collection between India and England in August. The ICC additional stated that share of factors gained might be used to find out standings within the 2021-23 cycle. Earlier, every Take a look at collection carried a worth of 120 factors which led to sure inequality within the desk as a workforce profitable a Take a look at in a two-match collection acquired 60 factors in comparison with five-game collection the place a Take a look at win is valued at 24 factors.
PTI had final month reported that ICC was set to introduce the brand new standardised factors system for the second WTC cycle quickly.
ICC Appearing Chief Govt Geoff Allardice stated the modifications had been made to simplify the factors system whereas taking learnings from the disruption final 12 months.
“We obtained suggestions that the earlier factors system wanted to be simplified. The Cricket Committee took this into consideration when proposing a brand new, standardized factors system for every match. It maintained the precept of making certain that every one matches in a WTC collection rely in the direction of a workforce’s standing, whereas accommodating collection various in size between two Exams and 5 Exams,” Allardice stated in an ICC assertion.
“Throughout the pandemic we needed to change to rating groups on the factors desk utilizing the share of obtainable factors gained by every workforce, since all collection couldn’t be accomplished.
“This helped us decide the finalists and we had been in a position to full the championship throughout the scheduled time-frame. This methodology additionally allowed us to check the relative efficiency of groups at any time, no matter what number of matches they’d performed.”
Aside from the India-England collection, the Ashes later this 12 months would be the solely different five-match affair within the second cycle which is able to finish in June 2023.
Australia’s tour of India subsequent 12 months is the one four-Take a look at collection within the upcoming cycle.
The 9 Take a look at groups will play a complete of six collection — three dwelling and three away identical to the earlier version.
India captain Virat Kohli stated after dropping the inaugural WTC ultimate to New Zealand, he expects his facet to regroup with “new vitality” within the new cycle, which begins with the primary Take a look at in opposition to England beginning August 4.
“It was nice to have performed the ultimate of the ICC World Take a look at Championship in opposition to New Zealand in what was a memorable contest. Not simply the ultimate, we noticed the dedication of gamers all through the primary version of the championship,” Kohli stated.
“The next of cricket lovers too was nice to see, and I’m positive they may all be ready eagerly for the second version. We are going to regroup with new vitality for the following cycle beginning with our collection in opposition to England.”
Reigning champion New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson stated WTC has revived folks’s curiosity within the conventional format of the sport.
“It was clearly fairly particular to win the inaugural ICC World Take a look at Championship in Southampton final month and it is thrilling to now stay up for the second version.
“The WTC has actually added extra context and introduced new which means to Take a look at cricket and it was superior to see the curiosity that was generated across the Closing in opposition to India,” he stated.
“We all know attempting to defend the title might be an enormous problem, however our focus might be on ensuring we put together in addition to we are able to for the excursions forward and attempting to keep up our degree of efficiency.”
England captain Joe Root describes the upcoming five-Take a look at duel in opposition to India as an “attention-grabbing problem”.
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“We begin our marketing campaign within the second version of the ICC World Take a look at Championship in opposition to the finalists of final time, which is an attention-grabbing problem immediately,” he stated.
“India are a nice all-round facet and it could be good to check them in our dwelling situations. We narrowly missed out on qualifying for the ultimate final time and need to do higher this time.”
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