Various / ICC
18 June 2021
The ICC's World Test Championship has been plagued by controversies over its points system, fixture inequity, and whether the format genuinely crowns the best Test team in the world.
New Zealand vs India
2021-06-23
New Zealand beat India by 8 wickets to win the inaugural ICC World Test Championship Final — Kane Williamson's 49 and Kyle Jamieson's 5/31 defeating the highest-ranked Test team in the world, giving cricket's longest format its first global champion.
ICC vs Comprehensibility
2019-08-01
The World Test Championship's points-percentage system — introduced to account for different numbers of series played — became so complex that even cricket journalists struggled to explain qualification scenarios, and was simplified after the first cycle following widespread criticism.