The 2025–2027 ICC World Test Championship will be fourth edition of the ICC World Test Championship. It will be played in Test format. It will start in June 2025 and it is scheduled to finish in June 2027 with the final match planned to be played at Lord's.[1][2]
Format
The tournament consists of 27 series and 71 matches in the league stage. The top two teams in the points table compete at the final. Each team plays six series, three at home and three away, with each series containing two to five Test matches.[3]
Points system
The points system was unchanged from the previous edition. A win was worth all 12 points, a tie was worth 6 points each, a draw was worth 4 points each, and a loss was 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 were ranked in the league table based on percentage of total points won out of total points contested.
Points system
Match result
Points earned
Points contested
Percentage of points won
Win
12
12
100
Tie
6
12
50
Draw
4
12
33.33
Loss
0
12
0
Points available per series
Matches in series
Total points available
2
24
3
36
4
48
5
60
Participants
The nine full members of the ICC who are participating:[4]
The International Cricket Council (ICC) announced the 2023–2027 Future Tours Programme on 17 August 2022 and identified which series was a part of the World Test Championship.[5][6] 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 cycles. The exact dates and the venues of these series will be decided by the boards of the competing teams.
Updated to match(es) played on 20 March 2023. Source: ICC Men's FTP[6]
The numbers in square brackets are the number of matches in the series. Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
