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The ICC World Test Championship, also referred to as the Test World Cup, is a league competition for Test cricket run by the International Cricket Council (ICC), which started on 1 August 2019. [1] [2] It is the premier championship for Test cricket. It is in line with the ICC's goal of having one pinnacle tournament for each of the three ...
The second ICC World Test Championship started on 4 August 2021 with the Pataudi Trophy 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 England in the summer of 2025.
Lord's has hosted the final five times. The inaugural ICC Cricket World Cup final was held on 21 June 1975 at Lord's, contested by Australia and the West Indies.A man of the match performance, [11] including a century, from West Indian captain Clive Lloyd, coming in to bat at number five with his team at 50/3, [12] formed the basis of a 149-run fourth-wicket partnership with Rohan Kanhai. [13]
World Test Championship winners list. The World Test Championship was launched in 2019 by the International Cricket Council (ICC) so that each format of the game had a pinnacle tournament.
The ICC Test Championship Mace is an award currently given to the winner of the ICC World Test Championship final. However, till 2019, it was awarded annually to the top-ranked Test team (as per April 1 cut-off) in the ICC Test Championship (2003–2019) .
The ICC Test Championship sees nine teams compete across a two-year cycle of matches before a two-team final decides the winner. ... Australia are the record winners having run out victorious on ...
From 2002 to 2019, the top-ranked Test team was awarded with the ICC Test Championship mace and the top team at each 1 April cut-off (until 2019) was also awarded a cash prize, the winners of which are listed below. The mace is now awarded to the winners of the ICC World Test Championship. The following table shows the test mace won by each team:
This list details the most significant team and individual records in Test cricket. As of July 2024 [update] , the most successful team in Test cricket, in terms of both wins and win percentage, is Australia, having won 414 of their 866 Tests (47.80%).