First ever World Cup final = West Indies vs Australia in 1975.
First ever T20 World Cup final = India vs Pakistan in 2007.
First ever World Test Championship final in 2021 = ……….. vs ………… ???
The inaugural ICC World Test Championship final starts a year today.
One year today the ICC World Test Championship final commences at the Lord’s Cricket Ground in London. It will be something new and different. It will be the first of its kind and a showpiece event for the longest form of the game. It will be a marquee event for Test Cricket going forward in the same way that the World Cup, T20 World Cup and Champions Trophy has been in the past for international white ball formats.
Indian Captain and Coach in Virat Kohli and Ravi Shastri have talked about how getting to Lord’s for that inaugural final is a priority and how the Test Championship as a league is the pinnacle for them above anything else.
This will be the next Test Match played at Lord’s following no international cricket to be played there this summer with bio secure arrangements in place at Manchester and Ageas Bowl only for England’s home bilateral 2020 international commitments.
It would appear India, Australia and New Zealand are favourites to make the final at this moment in time. 10.5 of the 27 series have been completed before Covid-19 brought proceedings to a halt.
However, not much World Test Championship Cricket was due to be played in April and May this year and therefore the impact of Covid-19 on the competition has been limited.
World Test Championship Cricket resumes on 8th of July when England take on West Indies in Southampton. West Indies have only played 3 Tests in comparison to England’s 12 Tests since winning the Wisden Trophy at home at the beginning of 2019.
Coming back to this day next year, the postponed Euro 2020 will also start and the Duke of Edinburgh will turn 100 on the same day. 10th June 2021 is a therefore significant day.
The winner will have to win the Test Match outright in order to be declared the winners. The second picture in the tweet says something else.
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