After the humiliating defeat by Bangladesh in the Rawalpindi Test, the Pakistan cricket team has dropped 2 places in the ICC World Test Championship ranking. Bangladesh defeated the national team by 10 wickets in the Pindi Test on their soil yesterday and achieved the feat of defeating Pakistan in a Test match for the first time in its 23-year history of Test cricket.
The very poor performance of the Pakistan team in the first test match against Bangladesh has not only become the cause of the embarrassing defeat but has also dampened the hopes of the national team to play the final of the ICC Test Championship next year. With this worst performance, the Pakistan team lost 12 valuable points in the Test Championship cycle and dropped 2 places to eighth place in the rankings.
And in this table, they are only above West Indies.
Bangladeshi team which was ranked 8th. With this victory, Pakistan moved up to the sixth position with 12 points. Before the two-Test series against Bangladesh, Pakistan was sixth in the ranking table and the whitewash against the visiting team pushed them to the third position. Could have, but now the national team is desperate to save the series itself.