London: India’s thrilling six-run victory over England within the fifth Check at The Oval not solely helped them draw the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy 2-2, but in addition gave their ICC World Check Championship (WTC) 2025–27 marketing campaign a much-needed raise.

With this end result, India climbed to 3rd place within the WTC standings, having earned 28 factors from 5 matches with a factors share (PCT) of 46.67.

The win was hard-fought and dramatic. England began the ultimate day needing simply 35 runs with 4 wickets in hand, however Indian pacers, led by Mohammed Siraj’s five-for, produced a sensational turnaround to grab their narrowest-ever wins by way of runs.

It was a big end result for a younger Indian facet lacking senior gamers, and it got here at a time when questions across the group’s transition in Check cricket had been raised.

England, who have been in a powerful place to shut out the collection, now discover themselves in fourth place on the WTC desk with 26 factors and a PCT of 43.33. Their place was additional impacted by a two-point penalty for sustaining a sluggish over-rate through the second Check at Lord’s.

Australia at the moment lead the standings with 36 factors from three matches and an ideal 100 per cent PCT, after finishing a 3-0 collection sweep over the West Indies. Sri Lanka follows in second place, having collected 16 factors from two matches and a PCT of 66.67, courtesy of a 1-0 residence collection win in opposition to Bangladesh.

Bangladesh, with one draw and one loss from two matches, sit in fifth place with 4 factors and a PCT of 16.67. The West Indies are sixth, having misplaced all three of their matches and earned no factors thus far within the cycle.

New Zealand, Pakistan and defending champions South Africa are but to start their WTC 2025–27 campaigns. With a number of high-profile collection lined up within the coming months, the standings are anticipated to shift shortly – however India’s hard-fought Oval win has given them a great platform to construct on.