The 2023–2025 ICC World Test Championship is an ongoing tournament of
Test Cricket
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which is the third edition of the
ICC World Test Championship. It started in June 2023 with
The Ashes
The Ashes is a Test cricket series played between England and Australia. The term originated in a satirical obituary published in a British newspaper, ''The Sporting Times'', immediately after Australia's 1882 victory at The Oval, its first Te ...
, which was contested between
England
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and
Australia
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, and it is scheduled to finish in June 2025 with the final match planned to be played at
Lord's
Lord's Cricket Ground, commonly known as Lord's, is a cricket venue in St John's Wood, London. Named after its founder, Thomas Lord, it is owned by Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and is the home of Middlesex County Cricket Club, the England and ...
.
Format
The tournament is being played over two years, with 68 matches over 27 series scheduled for the league stage. The top two teams in the points table will then qualify for the final which will be played at
Lord's, London. Each team is planned to play six series, with three at home and three away. Each series will consist of two to five Test matches. Each participant will play between 12 and 22 matches. Each match is scheduled for a duration of five days.
Participants
The nine full members of the ICC who will participate:
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The three full members of the ICC who will not participate:
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Schedule
The
International Cricket Council
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(ICC) announced the
2023–2027 Future Tours Programme on 17 August 2022 and identified which series will be a part of the World Test Championship.
Rather than being a full
round-robin tournament
A round-robin tournament (or all-go-away-tournament) is a competition
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in which everyone will play everyone else equally, each team played only six of the other eight as in the previous cycles. The exact dates and the venues of these series will be decided by the boards of the competing teams.
League table
* The top two teams will qualify for the
Final
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*Final (competition), the last or championship round of a sporting competition, match, game, or other contest which decides a winner for an event
** Another term for playoffs, describing a sequence of cont ...
.
* A win is worth 12 points. A draw is worth 4 points.
* Points deductions:
League stage
2023
The Ashes (England v Australia)
West Indies v India
Sri Lanka v Pakistan
2023–24
Bangladesh v New Zealand
Benaud-Qadir Trophy (Australia v Pakistan)
Freedom Trophy (South Africa v India)
2024
Frank Worrell Trophy (Australia v West Indies)
Anthony de Mello Trophy (India v England)
New Zealand v South Africa
Trans-Tasman Trophy (New Zealand v Australia)
Bangladesh v Sri Lanka
Richards-Botham Trophy (England v West Indies)
Sir Vivian Richards Trophy (West Indies v South Africa)
Pakistan v Bangladesh
England v Sri Lanka
India v Bangladesh
Sri Lanka v New Zealand
Pakistan v England
India v New Zealand
Bangladesh v South Africa
West Indies v Bangladesh
New Zealand v England
South Africa v Sri Lanka
2024–25
Border-Gavaskar Trophy (Australia v India)
South Africa v Pakistan
2025
Pakistan v West Indies
Warne-Muralitharan Trophy (Sri Lanka v Australia)
Final match
Statistics
Individual Statistics
The top 5 players of each category are listed.
Most Runs
Most wickets
Highest individual score
Most dismissals for a wicket-keeper
Best bowling figures in an innings
Best bowling figures in a match
Best batting averages
Best bowling averages
Team Statistics
Highest team totals
Lowest team totals
References
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ICC World Test Championship
Test cricket competitions