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The 2023–2025 ICC World Test Championship is an ongoing tournament of Test Cricket which is the third edition of the ICC World Test Championship.It started in June 2023 with The Ashes, which was contested between England and Australia, [1] and is scheduled to finish in June 2025 with the final match to be played between South Africa and Australia at Lord's.
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.
The 2024 International cricket season included matches from April 2024 to September 2024. [1] This calendar included men's Test, men's One Day International (ODI), men's Twenty20 International (T20I), women's Test, women's One Day International (ODI) and women's Twenty20 International (T20I) matches, as well as some other significant series.
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 Test series, where the teams are competing for the Warne–Muralitharan Trophy, forms part of the 2023–2025 ICC World Test Championship. [3] The ODI series will serve as part of Australia's preparation for the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy in February 2025. [4] In November 2024, the Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) confirmed the fixtures for the tour.
The Perth Stadium (also known as the Optus Stadium) will host the first test of the series. [8] This will be the first time the Perth Stadium will host an Ashes Test and will also mark the return of Ashes cricket to Perth, after the city was not included in the schedule for the 2021–22 series. [9] This will also be the first Ashes series in ...
The tour will consist of five Test matches. [2] [3] The series will form part of the 2025–2027 ICC World Test Championship. In August 2024, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) confirmed the fixtures for the tour, as a part of the 2025 home international season. [4] The series will run alongside the women's series between England and ...
The top ranked Test team was previously awarded the ICC Test Championship mace, until the inauguration of ICC World Test Championship. From 2003 to 2019, the mace was transferred whenever a new team moved to the top of the rating list. [1] The team that was top of the ratings table on 1 April each year also won a cash prize. [2]