Wtc 2025 final prize money: The final of the World Test Championship will be played between 11–15 June between Australia and South Africa. Australia is the defending champion, while South Africa will field for the first time with the dream of winning the title. The International Cricket Council (ICC) recently announced the prize money for the World Test Championship 2025. Only the winners and runners -up are going to get a prize money of Rs 49.24 crore in total, but there are teams including India and Pakistan who are going to take 53 crore rupees home without playing finals.
53 crores without playing final
A total of 9 teams were playing in the cycle of the World Test Championship 2023-25. On the one hand, 49.24 crore rupees will be distributed in both the finalist teams, on the other hand other seven teams are also going to get crores of rupees as reward. India, who finished third, will get an amount of Rs 12.31 crore, while the winner of WTC 2021 final New Zealand will get Rs 10.26 crore to stay fourth.
ICC has also become kind to other countries including England and West Indies. Even the laggard Pakistan is going to get 4.1 crore rupees to finish ninth. In fact, except for the finalist teams, the remaining 7 teams are going to get a total reward of Rs 53.33 crore without playing the final. Let us know that this time the prize pool of the World Test Championship has been kept more than Rs 102 crore.
Countries that win WTC so far
The World Test Championship was inaugurated in 2019 and the WTC final is played every 2 years. The first final was played in 2021, where New Zealand won the title by defeating India by 8 wickets. At the same time, Team India also made it to the finals of 2023 and this time it faced Australia. This time the Kangaroos had crushed India by 209 runs. This time the final will be played between Australia and South Africa.
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