Just after the 2025 ICC World Test Championship Final, where South Africa lifted the WTC mace, the fourth cycle of the ICC World Test Championship, the 2025-2027 ICC World Test Championship, has started. Here, we are going through the details of the 2025-2027 ICC World Test Championship.
Just like the first three WTC cycles, the 2025-2027 ICC World Test Championship will run with nine teams. In the fourth WTC cycle, each team will compete in six Test series, three at home and three at away.
Although all teams will not play the same number of Test matches, at the end of this WTC cycle, the top two teams with the highest percentage of points won out of points contested will advance to the Final. The winner of the Final will lift the fourth WTC mace, which Lord’s in London will host in June 2027.
2025-2027 ICC World Test Championship: Complete Schedules of Each Team
Here, we are going through each team’s scheduled series and total matches in the 2025-2027 ICC World Test Championship with the number of Test matches in each series.
Team | Scheduled Matches | ||
Total Matches | Home Series (Number of Matches – Season) | Away Series (Number of Matches – Season) | |
Australia | 22 | England (5 – 2025/26) Bangladesh (2 – 2026) New Zealand (4 – 2026/27) | West Indies (3 – 2025) South Africa (3 – 2026/27) India (5 – 2026/27) |
England | 21 | India (5 – 2025) New Zealand (3 – 2026) Pakistan (3 – 2026) | Australia (5 – 2025/26) Bangladesh (2 – 2026/27) South Africa (3 – 2026/27) |
18 | West Indies (2 – 2025/26) South Africa (2 – 2025/26) Australia (5 – 2026/27) | England (5 – 2025) Sri Lanka (2 – 2026) New Zealand (2 – 2026/27) | |
New Zealand | 16 | West Indies (3 – 2025/26) India (2 – 2026/27) Sri Lanka (2 – 2026/27) | England (3 – 2026) Australia (4 – 2026/27) Pakistan (2 – 2026/27) |
South Africa | 14 | Australia (3 – 2026/27) Bangladesh (2 – 2026/27) England (3 – 2026/27) | Pakistan (2 – 2025/26) India (2 – 2025/26) Sri Lanka (2 – 2026/27) |
West Indies | 14 | Australia (3 – 2025) Sri Lanka (2 – 2026) Pakistan (2 – 2026) | India (2 – 2025/26) New Zealand (3 – 2025/26) Bangladesh (2 – 2026/27) |
Pakistan | 13 | South Africa (2 – 2025/26) Sri Lanka (2 – 2026/27) New Zealand (2 – 2026/27) | Bangladesh (2 – 2025/26) West Indies (2 – 2026) England (3 – 2026) |
12 | Pakistan (2 – 2025/26) West Indies (2 – 2026/27) England (2 – 2026/27) | Sri Lanka (2 – 2025) Australia (2 – 2026) South Africa (2 – 2026/27) | |
12 | Bangladesh (2 – 2025) India (2 – 2026) South Africa (2 – 2026/27) | West Indies (2 – 2026) Pakistan (2 – 2026/27) New Zealand (2 – 2026/27) | |
2025-2027 ICC World Test Championship: Each Team with Unavailable Opponents
Here, we will see the two opponents that every team will not face in the 2025-2027 ICC World Test Championship.
Team | Teams With No Test Series |
Australia | Pakistan Sri Lanka |
England | Sri Lanka West Indies |
India | Bangladesh Pakistan |
New Zealand | Bangladesh South Africa |
South Africa | New Zealand West Indies |
West Indies | England South Africa |
Pakistan | Australia India |
Bangladesh | India New Zealand |
Sri Lanka | Australia England |
2025-2027 ICC World Test Championship: Points System
In the 2025-2027 ICC World Test Championship, every match will be contested with 12 points, and here we will see how the different results will affect the points for each team.
Match result | Points earned | Points contested | Percentage of points won |
Win | 12 | 12 | 100 |
Tie | 6 | 12 | 50 |
Draw | 4 | 12 | 33.33 |
Loss | 0 | 12 | 0 |
2025-2027 ICC World Test Championship: Points Available For Every Series Category
Every Test series in the 2025-2027 ICC World Test Championship has a different number of Test matches. So, every Test series will have different total points available [Points contested (12) x Number of Test matches in the series].
Matches in series | Total points available |
2 | 24 |
3 | 36 |
4 | 48 |
5 | 60 |
