2021–2023 World Test Championship

Second edition of World Test Championship

4 min read

The 2021–2023 ICC World Test Championship was the second edition of the ICC World Test Championship of Test cricket. It started on 4 August 2021, and it finished with the final on 7–11 June 2023 at The Oval, London, played between Australia and India.

The five-match Pataudi Trophy between England and India, started 4 August 2021, started the second cycle of the World Test Championship. That series, along with the Ashes in December 2021, were the only two series comprising five Tests in the second WTC cycle. New Zealand were the defending champions. In September 2022, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced that the final of this edition of the World Test Championship would be played at The Oval, London in June 2023. That final saw Australia win by 209 runs, thus becoming the only team to win all ICC titles.

Format

The tournament was played over two years, with 69 matches over 27 series scheduled for the league stage from which the top two teams advanced to a final. Each team was scheduled to play six series, with three at home and three away. Each series consisted of two to five Test matches. Each participant played between 12 and 22 matches. Each match was scheduled for a duration of five days.

Points system

The points system was changed from the previous edition. In this edition, 12 points would be available each match regardless of how many matches there were in a series. A win was worth all 12 points, a tie was worth 6 points each, a draw was worth 4 points each, and a loss was worth 0 points. Teams failing to meet the required over rate would have one point deducted for each over they were behind at the end of a match, except in cases where they bowled their opponents out in 60 overs in an innings, or 120 overs over the course of the match. As in the previous edition, teams were ranked in the league table based on percentage of total points won out of total points contested.

Participants

Nine full members of the ICC participated in the competition:

Australia
Bangladesh
England
India
New Zealand
Pakistan
South Africa
Sri Lanka
West Indies

The three full members of the ICC who did not participate were Afghanistan, Ireland and Zimbabwe.

Broadcasters

Schedule

The schedule for the World Test Championship was announced by the International Cricket Council (ICC) on 20 June 2018, as part of the 2018–2023 Future Tours Programme. 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 previous cycle.

Prize money

The International Cricket Council declared a total prize money pool of US$3.8 million for the tournament. The prize money was allocated according to the performance of the team as follows:

The winning team also received the ICC Test Championship Mace.

League table

League stage

2021

Pataudi Trophy (England v India)

West Indies v Pakistan

2021–22

Sobers–Tissera Trophy (Sri Lanka v West Indies)

India v New Zealand

Bangladesh v Pakistan

The Ashes (Australia v England)

Freedom Trophy (South Africa v India)

New Zealand v Bangladesh

New Zealand v South Africa

India v Sri Lanka

Benaud-Qadir Trophy (Pakistan v Australia)

Richards–Botham Trophy (West Indies v England)

South Africa v Bangladesh

2022

Bangladesh v Sri Lanka

England v New Zealand

West Indies v Bangladesh

Warne–Muralitharan Trophy (Sri Lanka v Australia)

Sri Lanka v Pakistan

Basil D'Oliveira Trophy (England v South Africa)

2022–23

Frank Worrell Trophy (Australia v West Indies)

Pakistan v England

Bangladesh v India

Australia v South Africa

Pakistan v New Zealand

Border–Gavaskar Trophy (India v Australia)

Sir Vivian Richards Trophy (South Africa v West Indies)

New Zealand v Sri Lanka

Final

Statistics

Individual statistics

The top 5 players in each category are listed.

Most runs

Most wickets

Most dismissals for a wicket-keeper

Most catches for a player

Highest individual score

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

Highest successful run-chases

Final standings

Notes

References

External links

Official website
Tournament home on ESPNcricinfo

Read full article on Wikipedia →

Content sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0

Share 𝕏 f w r