WTC: Bharat To Get started 2023-25 Cycle With West Indies Excursion, Will Additionally Play games Australia, England

Bharat will start the 2023-2025 ICC Global Check Championship (WTC) cycle with the then excursion to the West Indies in July and over the nearest two-year duration will play games some high-profile bilateral order in opposition to Australia and England amongst others. Bharat will journey to West Indies nearest year to play games two Check fits in Dominica (July 12-16) and Trinidad (July 20-24). Bharat had been finalists within the first two editions of the WTC, shedding to Untouched Zealand (2021) and to Australia (2023) within the ultimate.

The WTC 2023-25 cycle will start with the Ashes, when England face Australia in Birmingham on Friday.

Then the excursion to Windies, Bharat’s nearest WTC project will likely be on away shores in opposition to South Africa between December 2023 and January 2024.

Adopted through that, Bharat will host England for a five-match Check order in January-February 2024. They are going to next lock horns with Bangladesh in September-October 2024 At house and straight away next that Untouched Zealand will talk over with the sub-continent for a three-match Check order in October-November 2024.

Then the ones two fairly simple house schedules, Bharat will journey to Australia for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, a five-match order between November 2024 and January 2025, which additionally marks the tip of Bharat’s WTC engagements.

Wasim Khan, ICC’s Basic Supervisor of Cricket mentioned: “This championship has invigorated Test match cricket, bringing context for players and fans, and a high level of competitiveness as teams battle it out to be crowned World Test Champions at the end of the two-year cycle.

“The large turnout out at The Oval over the 5 days and the unbelievable viewership ranges around the globe for the overall is testimony to the continuing acclaim for Check cricket.” The structure of the nine-team WTC remains intact with each side playing three home and as many away series over a two-year period culminating in the final of a one-off Test.

The points percentage system used in the previous edition will determine the leaderboard with teams getting 12 points for a win, 6 for a tie and 4 for a draw.

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