The International Cricket Council's (ICC) World Test Championship is a Test cricket league tournament that began on August 1, 2019. It is designed to be the main Test cricket competition. It is consistent with the ICC's vision of having one peak competition for each of the three international cricket formats. The 2019 Ashes series kicked off the opening tournament. Matches were halted in March 2020 owing to the COVID-19 epidemic, and will not resume until July 2020, with several rounds of matches postponed or canceled. When it was decided that the series between South Africa and Australia would not be played, New Zealand became the first side to qualify for the final, followed by India. The first World Test Championship Final was held on June 18, 2021, at the Rose Bowl in Southampton, England, between India and New Zealand. Despite rain canceling the first and fourth days of the final, New Zealand won in the final session of the reserve day and took home the inaugural World Test Championship trophy.
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Table of content
Results
Team performance
Tournaments records
|
Tournament |
Final |
Final venue country |
Final venue |
Winners |
Runners-up |
Player of the Match |
|
2019-21 |
2021 |
England |
Rose Bowl, Southampton |
New Zealand |
India |
Kyle Jamieson |
Team Performance
A summary of the performances of all Test-playing nations:
|
Years |
Tournament |
World test championship team |
|
2019-21 |
New Zealand |
1st |
|
2019-21 |
India |
2nd |
|
2019-21 |
Australia |
3rd |
|
2019-21 |
England |
4th |
|
2019-21 |
South Africa |
5th |
|
2019-21 |
Pakistan |
6th |
|
2019-21 |
Sri Lanka |
7th |
|
2019-21 |
West indies |
8th |
Records in the Cricket World Test Championship.
|
List |
Player |
Records |
|
Highest score |
David warner |
335* |
|
Most hundreds |
Joe Root |
11 |
|
Most Wickets |
Pat Cummins |
103 |
|
Highest run(tournaments) |
Joe Root |
2835 |