The 2019–21 ICC World Test Championship started on 1 August 2019. It features nine of the twelve Test playing nations, each of whom will play a Test series against six of the other eight teams. The tournament will be played over two years, with a final at Lord’s in England in June 2021. India and Pakistan will not play against each other in the first and second editions of the tournament.
About 2019–21 ICC World Test Championship in brief
The 2019–21 ICC World Test Championship started on 1 August 2019. It features nine of the twelve Test playing nations, each of whom will play a Test series against six of the other eight teams. Each team will be able to score a maximum of 120 points from each series and the two teams with the most points at the end of the league stage will contest the final. The tournament will be played over two years, with a final at Lord’s in England in June 2021. India and Pakistan will not play against each other in the first and second editions of the tournament. South Africa became the first team to be docked World Test points, after a slow-rate over-rate in the fourth edition of the competition. The first Test of the 2019 Ashes series will take place in August 2019, with the second Test taking place in September. The final of the Championship will be held on June 21, 2021, and the winner will be declared joint champions in the case of a draw or a tie.
All players involved will have a squad number, even if they have never made their debuts in ODI or T20I teams. Some of the Test series in this Championship are part of a longer ongoing series, such as the2019 Ashes series, and some of these nine teams will play additional Test matches during this period which are not part of this Championship, as part of the ICC Future Tours Programme for 2018–23, mainly to give games to the three Test playing sides not taking part in this competition. In January 2020, the ICC announced that the finalists would be decided by percentage of points earned. The COVID-19 pandemic impacted on the Championship, with several rounds of matches being postponed. In April 2020, following a Chief Executives’ meeting, theICC announced that it would look at the future of the scheduling at a later date, once there is a better understanding of the impact of the pandemic on cricket.
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