There may be a clash between India and Pakistan in WTC. (Photo-PTI)
World Test Championship 2025-27: Pakistan has started its campaign brilliantly by registering its first win in the World Test Championship (WTC) 2025-27. Pakistan has won by 93 runs in the first test match played against South Africa in Lahore. Along with this, a big change has been seen in the points table of WTC. Pakistan has reached second position by defeating Team India. During this time, an interesting equation is emerging, due to which this time there can be a competition between India and Pakistan in the title match.
What is the equation?
After registering a spectacular victory in the Test series against West Indies, now Team India will face the challenge of South Africa at home. WTC 2025-27 Team India has just played 11 test matches. Out of these, she will play 7 test matches at home. The two-Test series against South Africa will start from November 14. After this, in August 2026, Team India will go to Sri Lanka to play 2 test matches, while in October-November 2026, India will tour New Zealand.
There also Team India will play a 2 test match series. Then it will play a five-Test series against Australia at home. This series will take place in January-February 2027. Team India will play 7 test matches at home. It will be very difficult for South Africa and Australia to defeat them in this, because of this Team India can make it to the finals of this championship. A similar equation is being created in Pakistan also.
Fair chance that this WTC cycle may have India and Pakistan as the finalists. Further test matches for both listed:
India. Pakistan Vs 🇿🇦 (H). Vs 🇿🇦 (H) Vs 🇦🇫 (H). Vs 🇧🇩 (A) Vs 🇱🇰 (A). Vs 🌴 (A) Vs 🇳🇿 (A). Vs 🏴🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀 (A) Vs 🇦🇺 (H). Vs 🇱🇰
— Spandan Roy (@talksports45) October 15, 2025
Pakistan will play so many matches at home
After winning the first test match against South Africa Pakistan Has reached second place in the points table of WTC. After this test match, Pakistan now has to play 12 test matches in WTC 2025-27. Out of these, it will play 5 test matches at home, while Pakistan will have to play 7 test matches on foreign soil. After the second Test match against South Africa starting from October 20, the Pakistani team will play a two-Test series at home against Sri Lanka in November 2026. After this, in March 2027, it will also play a two-Test series against New Zealand at home.
Meanwhile, in March 2026, Pakistan team will tour Bangladesh to play two test matches. In July-August 2026, she will go to West Indies to play a 2-Test series. After this, Pakistan team will tour England in August-September 2026 to play a 3-Test series. Pakistan’s series against Bangladesh and West Indies may be easy. Whereas at home the Pakistan team would like to win all five test matches at any cost. For this reason, it is expected that this time a final match can be seen between India and Pakistan.
Pakistan in WTC 2025-27
2 Tests v South Africa (Home) 2 Tests v Bangladesh (Away) 2 Tests v West Indies (Away) 3 Tests v England (Away) 2 Tests v Sri Lanka (Home) 2 Tests v New Zealand (Home)
Grab all 6 wins at home, this should be a no brainer, beating West Indies away
— imran 🇵🇰 (@economical) October 15, 2025
What is the condition of the points table?
If we talk about WTC 2025-27 points table, Australia is on top. Pakistan has reached second place in this list, while Sri Lanka is at third and India is at fourth place. England has slipped to fifth place.