2025–2027 World Test Championship
The 2025–2027 ICC World Test Championship is the fourth edition of the [World Test Cricket|Test Championship|ICC World Test Championship]. It is being played in Test format. It started on 17 June 2025 with the contest between Sri Lanka and Bangladesh at Galle International Cricket Stadium, and it is scheduled to finish in June 2027 with the final match planned to be played at Lord's.
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.The points system is unchanged from the previous edition. A win is worth all 12 points, a tie is worth 6 points each, a draw is worth 4 points each, and a loss is worth 0 points. A team that is 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 are ranked in the league table based on the percentage of total points won out of total points contested.
In the event that this percentage is tied between teams, a series of tiebreaker criteria are used to determine the standings of teams, starting with the number of series wins, followed by each team's percentage in away matches, and finally the ICC Test Rankings at the end of the league stage.
| 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 |
Participants
The nine full members of the ICC who will participate are:The three full members of the ICC who will not participate are Afghanistan, Ireland and Zimbabwe. India and Pakistan haven't played a test series [Pakistani cricket team in India national cricket team|India in 2007–08|since 2007] due to political tensions between the two countries.
Schedule
The International Cricket Council announced the 2023–2027 Future Tours Programme on 17 August 2022 and identified which series was a part of the World Test Championship. 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.League table
| Tie-breaking criteria |
The ranking of teams in the league stage is determined as follows:
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