Top 6 teams with the most number of players used in the World Test Championship thus far

In a bid to make Test match cricket more enticing, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced the first cycle of the World Test Championship. The Top 9 teams in the world are taking part in the Championship, and the top two teams will play the finals which will be held at the iconic Lords Cricket Ground in June 2021.

Currently, the top place is occupied by the Indian side. The Indian cricket team created history in Australia by beating the Aussies at The Gabba, a venue where the kangaroos had last lost a Test match way back in 1988 (before they lost in 2021). The second and third places are held by New Zealand and Australia respectively.

Bangladesh is the only side that is yet to even open their account, having lost all three matches that they have played in the tournament thus far.

Let us take a look at the Top 6 teams that have used the most number of players in the World Test Championship:

6. Pakistan

The sixth place is occupied by the Pakistan cricket team. Pakistan has, till now, used 20 players in the ICC World Test Championship. The side has played 10 Test matches in the current World Test Championship and has managed to win just 2 of those. While Pakistan has drawn 3 Tests, they have lost 5 of them.

Pakistan currently occupies sixth place in the ICC World Test Championship, and have accumulated 166 points thus far in the tournament. For Pakistan, batting superstar Babar Azam is the highest run-scorer in the World Test Championship and has aggregated 810 runs at an average of 81.00. Azam has also plundered 4 centuries and 4 half-centuries in the tournament.

On the other hand, Shaheen Shah Afridi has taken the most wickets for Pakistan in the World Test Championship, having scalped 29 batsmen in the 10 games he has played. The likes of Azhar Ali, Shan Masood, Mohammad Rizwan, and Shaheen Afridi have featured in every match that Pakistan have played thus far in the World Test Championship.