international cricket council
noticed that
there are world cups for odi and t20i
formats
but there has never been a world cup for
test cricket
cricket was first played in test matches
and then new formats of odi and t20 were
introduced
which ended in a day a test match has to
be played patiently for 5 days
while an odi or t20 is more aggressive
form of the game
test match is played patiently till the
opponents are
all out after an odi or a t20 match
the next day is a rest day
but a test match has to be played every
day for five days
the player needs to be fit for this as
there was no world cup to respect the
original format
it was decided to start one the top nine
ranked teams on the mrf tires icc test
rankings as on 31st
august 2018 qualified
these rankings are based on the team's
performance in earlier played matches
these nine teams were
australia bangladesh
england india new zealand
pakistan sri lanka south africa
and the west indies the last three teams
on the ranking
zimbabwe ireland and afghanistan did not
qualify
only the top nine teams qualified to
play the icc world test championship
that started from 1st
august 2019 for a period of 2 years
ending in june 2021 this was the world
test championship let me tell you more
about it
for example india is one of the nine
teams
out of the remaining nine teams india
must play series with six teams
in the same way other teams say
australia
must play with six other teams out of
the remaining eight teams
if we take india for example three
series should be played in
india any three teams like australia
england etc should come to india to play
the series
for the other three series india should
go to other countries to play
similarly england will play three series
at home
and three series away
the series cannot be of just one match
the series should have two to five
matches
suppose if india and england are playing
a series
they can have a two test match series
the teams can decide to have more than
two matches
there were a total of 71 test matches
between the nine teams
the teams were ranked based on the
points during their matches
icc was responsible for the calculation
of the points
icc worked with member boards like the
bcci
pcb cricket australia etc
for all organizational matters and the
schedule
the broadcast advertisers ticketing etc
would be decided by the board of the two
teams playing the test
icc has laws for the game that everyone
including umpires have to follow
however icc is also responsible for
delivery of the icc world test
championship
final including the broadcast rights
recently india won the test series
against
england by 3-1
with this win india secured its place in
the final against new zealand
the final starting from 18th june 2021
is a one-off test match
the winner of the final will be the icc
world test champion
the second world test championship is
scheduled from june 2021
to 30th april 2023
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