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The second ICC World Test Championship started on 4 August 2021 with the England–India series [2] and finished with Australia lifting the trophy after defeating India in the final in June 2023. The third ICC World Test Championship started on 16 June 2023 with the 2023 Ashes series and will conclude with the final in the summer of 2025.
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 previous ...
The second World Cup took place from 11–14 September, 2024, beginning with a group knock-out stage. [6] The final was held at the Blue Hall at Stockholm City Hall , [ 9 ] [ 10 ] and concluded with 2023 runner-up Blinky winning 3–2 over American player Robert "MK" Falconio, taking home $25,678 as a first-place prize.
Streaks, where players identify countries or U.S. states until they guess incorrectly. [7] [8] Explorer Mode, a single-player game where medals are awarded for accuracy in individual countries [9] Team Duels, a variation of Duels played between two teams. [10] [5] Maprunner, single-player game mode featuring a board game style interface. [11]
Test cricket is almost always played as a series of matches between two countries, with all matches in the series taking place in the same country (the host). Often there is a perpetual trophy that is awarded to the winner, the most famous of which is the Ashes contested between England and Australia.
The list excludes World Series Cricket venues and women's Test venues. On 8 July 2009, Sophia Gardens in Cardiff became the 100th Test venue. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The Stormont cricket ground in Belfast became the 123rd [ 1 ] and most recent Test venue when it staged a match between Ireland and Zimbabwe in July 2024 .
The What in the World? Quiz is a British comedy panel game first broadcast on 5 September 2008 on Five. The show is hosted by Marcus Brigstocke and guest stars Lee Hurst and Dominic Holland as the team captains. The show asks questions themed on science and technology. The guests on the show are scientists and academic experts.
Test series can last from two to six matches, but some tours consist of only a single Test. [7] Six-match series were common in the 1970s and early 1980s, with the last six-match series to date taking place in 1997–98 season between the West Indies and England. [8] The Ashes in England were six-match Test series between 1981 and 1997, but ...