2021–2023 ICC World Test Championship
Dates | 4 August 2021 – 31 March 2023 |
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Administrator(s) | International Cricket Council |
Cricket format | Test cricket |
Tournament format(s) | League and Final |
Participants | 9 |
Official website | ICC WTC |
The 2021–2023 ICC World Test Championship is the second edition of the ICC World Test Championship of Test cricket.[1][2][3] It started on 4 August 2021 and is scheduled to finish on 31 March 2023.[4] The venue for the final is yet to be announced.
The five-match Pataudi Trophy between England and India started 4 August 2021 began the second cycle of the World Test Championship.[5][6][7] That series along with the Ashes, in December 2021, will be the only two series comprising five Tests in the second WTC cycle.[8][9][10] New Zealand are the defending champions.[11][12]
Format[]
The tournament will be played over two years, with 69 matches over 27 series scheduled for the league stage from which the top two teams will advance to a final.[13] Each team is scheduled to play six series, with three at home and three away. Each series will consist of two to five Test matches. Each participant will play between 12 and 22 matches.[14] Each match is scheduled for a duration of five days.
Points system[]
The points system was changed from the previous edition. In this edition, 12 points would be available each match regardless of how many matches there are in a series. A win is worth all 12 points, a tie is worth 6 points each, a draw is worth 4 points each, and a loss is worth 0 points. A team that was behind the required over rate at the end of a match would have one point deducted for each over it was behind. As in the previous edition, teams are ranked in the league table based on percentage of total points won out of total points contested.[15][16][17]
Match result | Points earned | Points contested | Percentage of points won |
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Win | 12 | 12 | 100 |
Tie | 6 | 12 | 50 |
Draw | 4 | 12 | 33.33 |
Loss | 0 | 12 | 0 |
Matches in series | Total points available |
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2 | 24 |
3 | 36 |
4 | 48 |
5 | 60 |
Participants[]
The nine full members of the ICC who will participate are:[18]
The three full members of the ICC who are not eligible to participate:
Schedule[]
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.[19] 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.[20]
Team | Scheduled matches | Was not scheduled to play against | ||
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Total | Home | Away | ||
Australia | 19 | 10 | 9 | Bangladesh and New Zealand |
Bangladesh | 12 | 6 | 6 | Australia and England |
England | 22 | 11 | 11 | Bangladesh and Sri Lanka |
India | 18 | 8 | 10 | Pakistan and West Indies |
New Zealand | 13 | 6 | 7 | Australia and West Indies |
Pakistan | 14 | 8 | 6 | India and South Africa |
South Africa | 15 | 7 | 8 | Pakistan and Sri Lanka |
Sri Lanka | 12 | 6 | 6 | England and South Africa |
West Indies | 13 | 7 | 6 | India and New Zealand |
League stage[]
League table[]
Pos | Team | Series | Matches | PC | Points | Ded | PCT | RpW Ratio | ||||||||
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P | W | L | D | P | W | L | D | T | ||||||||
1 | Australia | 1* | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 36 | 0 | 100.00% | 1.935 | |
2 | Sri Lanka | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 24 | 0 | 100.00% | 1.761 | |
3 | Pakistan | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 48 | 36 | 0 | 75.00% | 1.666 | |
4 | India | 2* | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 72 | 42 | 2[a] | 58.33% | 1.287 | |
5 | West Indies | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 48 | 12 | 0 | 25.00% | 0.666 | |
6 | New Zealand | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 24 | 4 | 0 | 16.66% | 0.510 | |
7 | England | 2* | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 84 | 6 | 10[b][c] | 7.14% | 0.742 | |
8 | Bangladesh | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0.00% | 0.395 | |
9 | South Africa | |||||||||||||||
Source: International Cricket Council,[23] ESPNcricinfo[24] Last updated: 28 December 2021 |
- ^ India were deducted 2 points for a slow over-rate in the first Test against England on 4 August 2021.[21]
- ^ England were deducted 2 points for a slow over-rate in the first Test against India on 4 August 2021.[21]
- ^ England were deducted 8 points for a slow over rate in the first test against Australia on 11 December 2021.[22]
- *Ongoing series
- The top two teams will advance to the final.
- Team qualified for final
2021[]
Pataudi Trophy (England v India)[]
West Indies v Pakistan[]
2021–22[]
Sobers–Tissera Trophy (Sri Lanka v West Indies)[]
India v New Zealand[]
Bangladesh v Pakistan[]
26–30 November 2021
Scorecard |
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Pakistan won by 8 wickets
Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong Points: Pakistan 12, Bangladesh 0. |
4–8 December 2021
Scorecard |
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Pakistan won by an innings and 8 runs
Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Dhaka Points: Pakistan 12, Bangladesh 0. |
The Ashes (Australia v England)[]
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26–30 December 2021
Scorecard |
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Australia won by an innings and 14 runs
Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne Points: Australia 12, England 0. |
Freedom Trophy (South Africa v India)[]
New Zealand v Bangladesh[]
New Zealand v South Africa[]
India v Sri Lanka[]
Pakistan v Australia[]
Richards–Botham Trophy (West Indies v England)[]
South Africa v Bangladesh[]
2022[]
Bangladesh v Sri Lanka[]
West Indies v Bangladesh[]
Warne–Muralitharan Trophy (Sri Lanka v Australia)[]
England v New Zealand[]
Sri Lanka v Pakistan[]
Basil D'Oliveira Trophy (England v South Africa)[]
2022–23[]
Sir Vivian Richards Trophy (South Africa v West Indies)[]
Pakistan v England[]
Border–Gavaskar Trophy (India v Australia)[]
Ganguly–Durjoy Trophy (Bangladesh v India)[]
Pakistan v New Zealand[]
Frank Worrell Trophy (Australia v West Indies)[]
New Zealand v Sri Lanka[]
Australia v South Africa[]
Statistics[]
Individual statistics[]
The top 5 players in each category are listed.
Most runs[]
Runs | Player | Mat | Inns | NO | Avg | HS | 100s | 50s |
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817 | Joe Root | 7 | 13 | 1 | 68.08 | 180* | 3 | 4 |
368 | Rohit Sharma | 4 | 8 | 1 | 52.57 | 127 | 1 | 2 |
336 | Abid Ali | 4 | 7 | 0 | 53.93 | 133 | 1 | 1 |
322 | Cheteshwar Pujara | 6 | 12 | 1 | 29.27 | 91 | 0 | 2 |
315 | KL Rahul | 4 | 8 | 0 | 39.37 | 129 | 1 | 1 |
Last updated : 28 December 2021[25] |
Most wickets[]
Wkts | Player | Mat | Inns | Runs | Overs | BBI | BBM | Avg | 5WI | 10WM |
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30 | Ollie Robinson | 7 | 13 | 682 | 253.4 | 5/65 | 7/81 | 22.73 | 2 | 0 |
28 | Shaheen Afridi | 4 | 8 | 339 | 134.3 | 6/51 | 10/94 | 12.10 | 2 | 1 |
22 | James Anderson | 6 | 11 | 469 | 225.3 | 5/62 | 5/115 | 21.31 | 1 | 0 |
18 | Ramesh Mendis | 2 | 4 | 275 | 107.2 | 6/70 | 11/136 | 15.27 | 2 | 1 |
Jasprit Bumrah | 4 | 7 | 370 | 151.0 | 5/64 | 9/110 | 20.83 | 1 | 0 | |
Last updated : 28 December 2021[26] |
See also[]
- Test cricket
- ICC Test Championship
- ICC Men's Test Team Rankings
- 2020–2023 ICC Cricket World Cup Super League
- 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup
Notes[]
- ^ The match was originally scheduled to be played from 10 to 14 September 2021 at Old Trafford, but was rescheduled due to COVID-19 cases in the Indian camp.
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External links[]
- ICC World Test Championship
- Test cricket competitions
- 2021 in cricket
- 2022 in cricket
- 2023 in cricket