Under the captaincy of Shubman Gill, Team India has won its first win in the World Test Championship 2025-27 cycle by beating England in Edgbaston Test. India beat the English team by a huge margin of 336 runs during this period. This is the biggest win over foreign land in India’s history. With this victory, the points table of WTC has also changed.
In fact, India batted first by losing the toss in the second Test between India and England played in Edgbaston. Captain Shubman Gill scored an excellent innings of 269 runs, on which Team India scored a huge score of 587 runs. Later, Akash Deep and Mohammad Siraj’s bowling magic was seen and Siraj took 6 wickets and Akash took 4 wickets and he killed England for 407 runs.
In the second innings, India declared the innings for 527 runs and set a target of 608 runs to win in front of England. England lost 3 wickets by the end of the fourth day. The fifth day game started late due to rain, but when the match took place, Akashdeep rained once again. He completed 10 wickets in the match with 6 wickets in the second innings. England’s second innings was reduced to 271 runs and India won the match by 336 runs.
Australia and Sri Lanka are present in the top 2. Australia has won 2 out of 2 matches, with 24 points it is at number one. The second number is Sri Lanka, who has won 1 match and played a match draw. Sri Lanka has 16 points.
Team India has come at number three after this victory. Team India won 1 match and loses 1. Before this Test, England was in the top 2, but now it has moved to number four. India and England have 12–12 points.