Lord’s to stage 2025 World Test Championship final
LONDON: Lord´s will host the World Test Championship final for the first time in 2025, the International Cricket Council announced on Tuesday.
The final between the two highest-placed teams in the World Test Championship rankings will start on June 11 at the ´Home of Cricket´. Australia are the reigning World Test champions after beating India at The Oval in 2023.
New Zealand won the tournament´s first edition against India in Southampton in 2021. Nine Test playing nations are ranked on their performances in the five-day, red-ball format over a two-year cycle, which started in 2023.
India sit top of the current Test rankings ahead of second placed Australia, while New Zealand are in third place and England lie fourth. The two Lord´s finalists will be confirmed on January 28.
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