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The 2023–2025 ICC World Test Championship is an ongoing tournament of Test Cricket which is the third edition of the ICC World Test Championship.It started in June 2023 with The Ashes, which was contested between England and Australia, [1] and is scheduled to finish in June 2025 with the final match to be played between South Africa and Australia at Lord's.
The WTC league games are organized by the host nation's cricketing board, whereas the WTC finals is organized directly by the ICC. The inaugural ICC World Test Championship started with the 2019 Ashes series and finished with New Zealand lifting the trophy after defeating India in the final in June 2021.
The 2021–2023 ICC World Test Championship was the second edition of the ICC World Test Championship of Test cricket. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It started on 4 August 2021 [ 4 ] and finished with the Final on 7–11 June 2023 at The Oval , London , played between Australia and India .
Bangladesh and Pakistan had World Test Championship points deducted and players were fined for slow over rates during Bangladesh’s historic 10-wicket win in the first test.
In September 2022, the ICC announced that The Oval in London would host the 2023 ICC World Test Championship Final, the second consecutive time the final was taking place in England. [5] In February 2023, the ICC confirmed that the final would take place from 7 to 11 June 2023, with a reserve day on 12 June. [6]
Pos Team Pld W L T NR Pts NRR Qualification 1 India (H) 9 9 0 0 0 18 2.570 Advanced to the semi-finals and qualified for the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy: 2 South Africa 9 7 2 0 0 14 1.261
The International Cricket Council (ICC) announced the 2023–2027 Future Tours Programme on 17 August 2022 and identified which series was a part of the World Test Championship. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Rather than being a full round-robin tournament in which everyone played everyone else equally, each team played only six of the other eight as in the ...
Prior to the introduction of the World Test Championship (WTC) Final, the mace was awarded to the team at the top of the ICC Men's Test Team Rankings. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Since the inception of the WTC Final, the mace has been awarded to the winning team, with the New Zealand team being the first recipient under this new system.