The ICC World Test Championship is a league competition for Test cricket run by the International Cricket Council (ICC), started on 1 August 2019.[1][2] It is intended to be the premier championship for Test cricket. ICC World Test Championship is keeping in line with ICC’s goal of having one pinnacle tournament for each of the three formats of international cricket.[3]
The original plans to hold the competition in 2013, replacing the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy, were abandoned. It was rescheduled for June 2017, with a second Test championship to take place in India in Feb-March 2021.[4][5] The top four ranked teams on 31 December 2016 – the cut-off date set by the ICC – would play the three-match Test championship. There would have been two semi-finals and the winners play the final.[6] However, in January 2014 the ICC World Test Championship was cancelled and the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy was reinstated.[7]
In October 2017, the ICC announced that a Test league had been agreed by its members, which would involve the top nine teams playing series over two years with the top two teams qualifying for a World Test League Championship Final.[8] The first ICC World Test Championship started after the 2019 Cricket World Cup from 1 August 2019, with the Ashes series. The second ICC World Test
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