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The ICC World Test Championship (WTC), is a biennial cricket tournament organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC). It is played for two years. It is the premier championship for Test cricket. [1] Australia are the current champions, having defeated India in the 2023 final. India have played in each WTC final, finishing runners-up in ...
The BBC also secured the rights held by Channel 5 and will cover highlights of England Men's & Women's teams Test Matches, ODI, and T20 internationals alongside live radio rights and clip rights for the BBC Sport website. [9] The final episode of Cricket on 5 highlighted England's win at the last Ashes test of the 2019 Ashes series. The ...
At the end of each test match, the commentators vote for their favourite special moment in the match, and the player involved wins a bottle of Veuve Clicquot champagne. Examples include a personal milestone for a player, such as a century or five-wicket haul, a dramatic celebration, or a spectacular piece of fielding, wicket or shot.
Today, Test matches are scheduled to be played across five consecutive days. However, in the early days of Test cricket, matches were played for three or four days. England hosted Ireland at Lord's on 1st June 2023 for a four-day test. [23] There were also frequent six-day tests until the 1970s. [24]
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. [28] 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.
The match marked the last international appearance for New Zealand's BJ Watling. [65] In May 2021, Watling had announced that he would retire after the World Test Championship final. [66] [67] Watling had also dislocated his ring finger during the first session of the final day of the match when he attempted to collect the ball. [68]
This happened in a Test between England and Zimbabwe in 1996. [6] England needed 205 to win the match in their fourth innings, off 37 overs, but finished the day 204/6. With three runs required off the last ball, Nick Knight was run out going for the third, thus making it the first time in Test history that a match had finished drawn with ...
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.