The International Cricket Council (ICC) recently made some changes to the point system of the World Test Championship’s point table, after which teams are now ranked not by points but by percentage points. After this change, Team India fell to second place in the points table, while Australia reached the top. Team India captain Virat Kohli is a bit upset about this change.
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He described the ICC’s decision as confusing and said it needed to be understood a lot because of this change. Australia (296 points in three series) topped India (360 points in four series) after the amendment. Australia has 82.22 per cent, while India has 75 per cent. Virat Kohli said the decision was a surprise and difficult to understand. He said, ‘It’s definitely a surprise, because the top two teams in the World Test Championship qualify based on points and now suddenly it’s based on percentage, it’s confusing and it’s hard to understand why. ‘
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“If we have been informed of these issues from the first day, it is easy to understand why such a change occurred,” he said. Virat said, “But it has been done suddenly and I think the ICC needs to ask questions to understand why it was done and the reason behind it.”
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