ICC to standardise points system for next WTC Cycle

"We have looked at this at the end of this cycle as well and we have the second cycle starting in a month and a half and there will be some tweaks to the points system," ICC interim CEO Geoff Allardice said.

New Delhi: The much-debated World Test Championship points system is set to undergo a change during the second edition where all teams will get “same standardised number of points” for winning a game rather than the 120 allocated per series, ICC interim CEO Geoff Allardice said on Monday.

During the last cycle, the value for each series was 120 points where a two-match India-Bangladesh series had 60 points for a win while a four-match India-Australia Test series had 30 points in store per victory. However, during the last phase with lot of series cancelled, ICC reverted to the percentage points system where a team’s ranking was calculated on the basis points divided by the number of matches played.

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“We have looked at this at the end of this cycle as well and we have the second cycle starting in a month and a half and there will be some tweaks to the points system,” Allardice said during an interaction with select media outlets. “…We can put in a standardised number of points for per Test match, so that it doesn’t matter whether it’s a two Test series or a five-Test series, so same number of points will be available for each match that’s played. But every team will be judged on percentage of points its wins and not on total,” Allardice explained.

While Covid-19 did wreak havoc on the calendar, an India-New Zealand final after taking all postponements into account is a fair result, he said. “One of the things that happened during this cycle was that it became evident that not everyone was going to complete their six series as a result of postponements due to Covid,” he reasoned.

“Because we have had teams playing uneven number of series, we made it a point to tweak the points system and make it as fair as possible and make sure that it reflected the matches that we did play rather than being influenced too heavily by the series we didn’t play.”

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