World Test Championship 2025-27: Just a few days ago, South Africa won the World Test Championship 2025 title. He registered a historic victory over Australia by 5 wickets in the final. South Africa won an ICC Trophy after nearly 27 years. Legendary players like Graeme Smith, Sean Pollock and AB de Villiers also witnessed this special moment and historic victory. Now veteran player de Villiers has given an important advice to the ICC, he believes that the World Test Championship Finals should be held every 4 years.

Discussing a podcast, AB de Villiers said that the World Test Championship schedule by the ICC needs improvement. He believes that if the final of WTC is every 4 years, everyone can benefit. De Villiers believes that all Test playing countries should get equal opportunity.

WTC final in 4 years

AB de Villiers said, “You should have the feeling as if you have reached the finals after performing well against all the countries. Perhaps the WTC cycle should be four years old. We have done so in ODI cricket before, then why not in Test format? This format will be appropriate and organizers will get more time to prepare a balanced and fair system.”

Test cricket is also struggling with a big trouble, because many countries are not getting the host of Test matches. Talking about South Africa, he has not hosted any Test series till October 2026.

When did WTC start

The World Test Championship was started in the year 2019, in which the format to play the final match was prepared every 2 years. Such a format was prepared that in this interval of 2 years, a team has to play 6 Test series, including three domestic series and three foreign tours.

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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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South Africa Squad WTC Final 2025: The 2025 World Test Championship Final will be played between South Africa and Australia. South Africa has declared its 15 -member squad for the final match. The match is to be played from 11–15 June at Lord’s ground in England. The Cagiso Rabada, who has suffered a one -month ban due to doping recently, will return to the team, while Temba will be captaining the team.

The South African pace attack also includes Lungi Angidi, who has returned from injury. Marco Johnson, Corbin Bosch and Vian Mulder will be seen taking command of fast bowling. Head coach Shukri Konrad believes that his team seems fully prepared for the World Test Championship final, in which there is no shortage.

In the cycle of 2023-25 ​​World Test Championships, South Africa played a total of 12 Test matches, with a point of 69.44 after winning 8 wins. South Africa must be contesting the final match of the World Test Championship, being the table topper.

Cagiso was banned on Rabada

Cagiso Rabada was banned for a month as he was found positive in the doping investigation. The investigation found that he had consumed cocaine before the SA20 League. For this reason, he left the middle of IPL 2025 and returned home. Let us know that due to failure in the drugs test, he was banned for a month, the good thing is that he has returned to the team for the WTC final.

South Africa’s squad for WTC final: Temba Bavuma (Captain), Aden Markram, Lungi Engidi, Tony Di Jorgy, David Bedingham, Keshav Maharaj, Triston Stabs, Corbin Bosch, Senuran Muthusamy, Marco Janson, Cagiso Rabada, Kyl Veren, Dan Patterson, Vian Mullder, Ryan Ruilder, Ryan Rules.

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