World Test Championship: Cricket

Select Language Afrikaans Albanian Arabic Armenian Azerbaijani Basque Belarusian Bulgarian Bengali Catalan Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Filipino Finnish French Galician Georgian German Greek Gujarati Haitian Creole Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Irish Italian Japanese Javanese Kannada Khmer Korean Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Malay Maltese Marathi Nepali Norwegian Persian Polish Portuguese Punjabi Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swahili Swedish Tamil Telugu Thai Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese Welsh Yiddish

This is a collection of articles archived for the excellence of their content. Additional information may please be sent as messages to the Facebook community, Indpaedia.com. All information used will be gratefully acknowledged in your name.

A primer

As in 2019

August 21, 2019: The Times of India

The points system
From: August 21, 2019: The Times of India

WORLD TEST CHAMPIONSHIP PRIMER

• The World Test Championship adopts a league system for Test cricket.

• It will be contested over two-year cycles and has already started, on August 1, with the opening Ashes Test at Edgbaston.

• The participating teams are Australia, Bangladesh, England, India, Pakistan, New Zealand, South Africa, Sri Lanka and West Indies.

• The teams will play three series each at home and away. Each series will have a minimum of two and maximum of five Tests. All teams will not play each other.

• Abandoned matches will be treated as draws.

• If at the end of the group stage, two or more teams are level on points, the team with more series wins will take the higher spot on the table.

• If the teams still can’t be separated, runsper-wicket ratio — runs scored per wicket lost, divided by runs conceded per wicket taken — will be taken into consideration.

• The top two teams on the points table at the end of the league phase will contest the final in 2021 in the UK.

• If the final is tied or drawn, the two teams will be declared joint champions.