Pakistan have earned 24 World Test Championship points, and handed 19 of them back
The ICC docked Pakistan another 11 WTC points on September 14 for a slow over-rate at Edgbaston. That leaves them bottom of the table on five points from nine Tests.
Sep 14, 2026
Pakistan have won two Test matches in this World Test Championship cycle. Two wins is 24 points. They are sitting on five.
The gap is not a mystery. The ICC docked Pakistan 11 points on September 14 for a slow over-rate in the third Test against England at Edgbaston, and that came on top of an eight-point deduction in Dhaka in May. Nineteen of the 24 points Pakistan have earned with the bat and ball have gone back to the match referee.
Eleven overs short at Edgbaston
Pakistan were 11 overs short of the required rate once time allowances were applied. Ranjan Madugalle of the Emirates ICC Elite Panel of Match Referees imposed the sanction. Article 16.11.2 of the World Test Championship playing conditions costs a side one point for every over it fails to bowl, and the code of conduct adds a fine of five percent of the match fee per over. That fine stops at half a match fee. Pakistan reached the cap.
Pakistan bowled 113.2 overs in that Test across England’s two innings and still finished 11 short of where they should have been. England took the match by eight wickets inside four days and the series 3-0. The scorecard now carries the cleanest summary of the whole tour: England 12 points, Pakistan minus 11.
The second offence in four months
Pakistan had been here in May. In the first Test against Bangladesh at Mirpur they finished eight overs short, referee Jeff Crowe fined them 40 percent of their match fees, and captain Shan Masood pleaded guilty. Pakistan lost that match by 104 runs.
Shan Masood was captain in Dhaka. Babar Azam was captain at Edgbaston, with Salman Ali Agha having led the side at Headingley while Babar was injured. Two different captains have now been penalised for the same offence inside four months.
Last of nine, on 4.63 percent
Pakistan are ninth of nine teams with a points percentage of 4.63. Nine matches, two won, seven lost, five points banked out of a possible 108.
India sit fifth on 51.52 percent, with 68 points from 11 matches, five won, four lost and two drawn. Australia lead on 80 percent from 10 matches, South Africa are second on 75 from four, and New Zealand third on 72.22 from six.
Pakistan are not the only offenders
England have handed back 14 points of their own in this cycle, two against India in July 2025 and another 12 against New Zealand in June 2026. Seven wins from 16 matches, more Tests than anybody has played, and they are still down in sixth on 38.54 percent. West Indies lost two points against Sri Lanka in July. Nobody has bled as much as Pakistan, but nobody is clean either.
That England hit of 12 is the biggest single-match deduction of the cycle. Pakistan’s 11 is the second, and the two landed within three months of each other. Five of the cycle’s deductions have now gone down, and between them they have wiped out 35 points that were won on the field.
For Pakistan the arithmetic has already closed. Even a perfect run through the rest of the cycle leaves them chasing a deficit they created in the field rather than at the crease, and the fix is not a selection meeting or a new captain. It is bowling the overs.