ICC World Test Championship
ICC World Test Championship, equally make allusion to as the Test World Cup, is an association contest for Test cricket show to the Global Cricket Committee (ICC).
What began on 1 August 2019? It is the chief title for Test cricket. It is in accordance with the ICC’s objective of having one apex competition for every one of the three arrangements of global cricket.
Australia are the ongoing heroes, having crushed India in the 2023 last. India have played in every ICC World Test Championship last, wrapping sprinters up in both.
The association rounds of ICC World Test Championship (ICCWTC) are not considered as an ICC occasion and the telecom privileges are with the host countries cricketing board itself and not with ICC.
Be that as it may, dissimilar to the association stage coordinates, the WTC finals are viewed as an ICC occasion. The debut began with the 2019 Remains series and wrapped up with New Zealand lifting the prize subsequent to overcoming India in the last in June 2021.
The second ICC World Test Championship started on 4 August 2021 with the Pataudi Prize series and draped up with Australia exciting the prize in the wake of overwhelming India in the last in June 2023.
The 2023-2025 ICC World Test Championship began in 2023 and will finish up with the championships in Britain in the late spring of 2025.
History of ICC World Test Championship
This title was first proposed in 1996 by Clive Lloyd, previous cricketer and afterward director of the West Indies group. Afterward, in 2009, when the ICC met the MCC to examine a proposed Test match title. Previous New Zealand chief Martin Crowe was one of the fundamental minds behind this proposition.
In July 2010 ICC CEO Haroon Logit proposed a quadrennial competition with the four best-positioned countries meeting in the semi-finals and a last, in a bid to support hailing interest in the longest type of the game.
The principal competition was intended to supplant the 2013 ICC World Test Championship Prize in Britain and Grains. The possibility of a Test title was viewed as by the ICC CEOs’ Council at a gathering at their base camp in Dubai in mid-September 2010.
ICC representative Colin Gibson said substantially more would be uncovered after the gathering and that on the off chance that the title was held in Britain, the leaned toward conclusive scene would be Master’s.
True to form, the ICC endorsed the arrangement and said that the primary competition would be held in Britain and Grains in 2013. The configuration of the competition was likewise reported.
It would include a debut association stage, played over a time of four years, with every one of the ten current Test cricket countries (Australia, India, Britain, South Africa, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, West Indies, Zimbabwe and Bangladesh) taking an interest.
After the association stage the best four groups will partake in the end of the season games, with the last deciding the Test cricket champions.
There was a discussion with regards to whether the play-off would happen between the main 8 groups or the best four groups, however the last option was consistently picked by the board.
It was additionally reported that the competition would supplant the ICC Champions Prize. No choice had been made concerning how to determine the end result of drawn matches in the take out stages.
In any occasion, in 2011, the ICC reported that the Test Championship wouldn’t occur until 2017 and that the 2013 competition would be dropped in view of monetary issues inside the board, and its obligation to its supporters and telecasters.
Britain and Grains, the first has of this dropped competition were granted the 2013 ICC Champions Prize all things being equal, the competition that the Test Championship was expected to supplant.
This drew far reaching analysis; both Greg Chappell and Graeme Smith condemned the ICC, saying that delaying the Test Title was off-base and ridiculous. The Watchman revealed that this deferment was a catastrophe for Ruler’s, which had been supposed to have the last.
At the ICC CEOs’ gathering in April 2012, it was affirmed that the ICC Champions Prize would be last held in 2013 with the debut ICC World Test Championship end of the season games being booked for June 2017.
The ICC expressed that there would be just a single prize for each organization of the game, which implied that the Bosses Prize would never again happen since the Cricket World Cup is the head occasion for 50-over cricket.
The last would potentially have followed the authentic ageless test format. Further enhancements in the design of the title have additionally been examined.
Nevertheless, in January 2014 the 2017 ICC World Test Championship was dropped and the 2017 ICC Champions Prize was restored.
In October 2017, the ICC reported that a Test association had been settled upon by its individuals, which would include the main nine groups playing series more than two years with the best two groups fitting the bill for a ICC World Test Championship Last, which will be considered as an ICC occasion.
Competition Outline
2019-21 Competition
The principal competition started with the 2019 Remains series. In March 2020, matches were suspended because of the Coronavirus disease, not continuing before July 2020, with a few rounds of matches being late or finally dropped.
New Zealand twisted into the principal teams to meet all requirements for the last, when it was confirmed that the series between South Africa and Australia wouldn’t continue, lag behind by India.
The debut ICC World Test Championship Last was played among India and New Zealand from 18 to 23 June 2021 at Rose Bowl, Southampton, Britain.
Regardless of the opening and fourth day of the last being cleaned out by downpour, New Zealand figured out how to win in the last meeting of the save day and lifted the primary World Test Title prize.
2021-23 Competition
The WTC 2021-23 cycle started in August 2021 with Pataudi Prize (5 matches series among India and Britain). The Worldwide Cricket Board formally reported the full program with another focuses framework.
Australia qualified for the last by winning the third Test Match of the 2022-23 Boundary Gavaskar Prize. India qualified after Sri Lanka neglected to dominate the principal game of their series in New Zealand, meeting all requirements for the last for the second back to back time.
The last was played from 7 June to 11 June 2023 at The Oval, London, Britain, with Australia arising as champions subsequent to overcoming India by 209 runs. This was India’s second successive loss at the WTC last.
2023-25 Competition
The WTC 2023-25 cycle started with the first Cinders Test on 16 June 2023. The Global Cricket Gathering formally reported that the WTC last will be played at Master’s in the late spring of 2025.
