After registering a win by 269 runs within the third and closing Check in opposition to West Indies, England reached the third place within the ICC World Test Championship (WTC) standings. With this win within the third and closing Check, England received the three-match series 2-1 in opposition to West Indies. England is now on 226 factors, solely behind India (360 factors) and Australia (296), whereas the West Indies stay within the seventh place with 40 factors. Windies had received the primary Check in opposition to England, however the facet confronted losses within the second and third Assessments. With this sequence win, England managed to regain the Wisden Trophy. Within the third and closing Check, Stuart Broad additionally turned simply the seventh bowler to register 500 wickets within the longest format of the sport.
England had began the sequence in fourth place with 146 factors, 34 lower than New Zealand’s 180.
Earlier within the championship, England had drawn a five-match sequence in opposition to Australia 2-2 and received a four-match sequence in opposition to South Africa Three-1.
The one earlier sequence for the West Indies was in opposition to India at residence, which they misplaced 2-Zero.
England now gears up for his or her subsequent sequence in opposition to Pakistan, which commences with the primary match in Manchester from August 5, adopted by the remaining two matches in Southampton.
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Every sequence of the WTC is value 120 factors, distributed evenly over the variety of matches in a sequence.
The factors vary from 60 for every match of a two-Check sequence to 24 for every match of a five-Check sequence.
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