{"id":12278,"date":"2025-01-28T14:34:17","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T09:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=12278"},"modified":"2025-01-28T14:34:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T09:34:17","slug":"pakistan-cricket-team-hits-rock-bottom-in-world-test-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=12278","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Cricket Team Hits Rock Bottom in World Test Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col flex-grow\">\n<div class=\"min-h-8 text-message flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 whitespace-normal break-words text-start [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-5\" dir=\"auto\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"aa25c04a-569b-424b-8bfd-031cbfbbb661\" data-message-model-slug=\"gpt-4o\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden first:pt-[3px]\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose w-full break-words dark:prose-invert light\">\n<p><strong>Due to consecutive losses and poor performances on home ground, the Pakistan cricket team has reached its lowest point in the ICC World Test Championship standings.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to details, Pakistan suffered a 120-run defeat against the West Indies in the second and final Test held at the Multan Cricket Stadium. This marked Pakistan&#8217;s first Test defeat at home to the West Indies in 35 years, pushing the Green Caps to the bottom of the ICC Test Championship standings.<\/p>\n<p>The victorious West Indies team concluded their campaign in second-last, eighth place. Neither team has any further Test series scheduled in the current championship cycle.<\/p>\n<p>During the 2023\u20132025 World Test Championship cycle, Pakistan&#8217;s performance has been dismal, securing victories in only 5 out of 14 matches. Points deductions for slow over rates further reduced their percentage to 27.98, sealing their last-place finish.<\/p>\n<p>The West Indies, in comparison, played 13 Test matches, winning 3, drawing 2, and losing 8, achieving a percentage of 28.21.<\/p>\n<p>The Green Shirts, once aspiring to reach the final, finished in the ninth position. Meanwhile, South Africa topped the standings and will face Australia in the final.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to consecutive losses and poor performances on home ground, the Pakistan cricket team has reached its lowest point in the ICC World Test Championship standings. According to details, Pakistan suffered a 120-run defeat against the West Indies in the second and final Test held at the Multan Cricket Stadium. This marked Pakistan&#8217;s first Test [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,38],"tags":[5048,5047,5046,4949,5045],"class_list":["post-12278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-sports","tag-cricket-downfall","tag-home-defeats","tag-icc-rankings","tag-team-performance","tag-test-championship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}