Kandy–The West In­dies gained some cru­cial rat­ing points in the just con­clud­ed three-match se­ries against Sri Lan­ka to move clos­er to Pak­istan in the ICC Test Cham­pi­onship ta­ble re­leased yes­ter­day. The teams played to three draws as a com­bi­na­tion of bad weath­er and a resur­gent West In­dies per­for­mance de­prived the home team of a sin­gle vic­to­ry as the se­ries end­ed. For man­ag­ing to avoid de­feat, new cap­tain Dar­ren Sam­my and his team are now placed just three rat­ings points be­hind Pak­istan in sev­enth po­si­tion.

Over­all the West In­dies have 85 points while Pak­istan have 88. New Zealand are next on 80. Mean­while, Sri Lan­ka dropped two places to fifth. The ICC out­lined that with the West In­dies ranked four places be­low Ku­mar San­gakkara's side pri­or to the first match, a drawn se­ries has knocked Sri Lan­ka down to 109 rat­ings points, be­hind Eng­land and Aus­tralia, which in turn both gain one place as a re­sult.