2019-21 ICC World Test Championship

The 2019-21 ICC World Test Championship is the inaugural edition of the ICC World Test Championship of Test cricket. It started from 1 August 2019 with the first Test of the 2019 Ashes series, and finish with a final at Lord's in England in June 2021. In case of a draw or a tie in the final, two teams playing the final will be declared as joint champions of the ICC World Test championship.

It has been 22 years since Ali Bacher, the then United Cricket Board of South Africa supremo, Clive Lloyd and Arif Ali Abbasi, former Pakistan Cricket Board CEO, had proposed the idea of a 'Test World Cup'. There were a couple more attempts made to hold such an event, but it fell through due to various reasons and following two cancelled attempts to hold the inaugural competition in 2013 and 2017.

It features top nine of the twelve Test playing nations, each of whom will play a Test series against six of the other eight teams.

In terms of player uniforms, all players will adopt a squad number that is the same as their ODI and Twenty20I numbers, with players that specializes in Test cricket also being assigned a squad number.

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