The International Cricket Council’s (ICC) interim CEO, Geoff Allardice infirmed that the apex council will going to “stick with the percentage-of-points-won method to rank teams” in the next cycle of the World Test Championship (WTC). In the last cycle, the total points for each series were 120 and after the pandemic had struck, they had decided to change it to the percentage of points for ranking the teams due to the scheduled disruption following the COVID-19 pandemic.
Geof Allardice pointed out that same points will be available for each game and teams will be judged on the percentage of those points it wins rather than “total points.”
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As quoted by the ICC, Geoff Allardce said, “We are going to stick with the percentage-of-points-won method to rank teams. When we looked at the first 12 months of the competition you had teams on a number of points, but it was all relative to how many series they had played. So one of the ways to compare teams on an ongoing basis is what proportion of the points that have been available in the matches they played have been actually won. “
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He further elaborated, “And that percentage served us well in the second half of the Championship. The other thing is if we are using the percentage of points won we can put a standardized number of points per Test match. So it doesn’t matter if it is a two-Test series or a five-Test series, the same number of points will be available for each match that’s played, but every team would be judged on the percentage of those points it wins, not on the total.”
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The winning team of the ICC World Test Championship (WTC) will be receiving huge prize money of USD 1.6 million along with the Test championship mace. In an interaction with a selected group of media, Allardice stated that the runner-up team will be getting the reward of USD 8,00,000 and the amount could be split evenly if the match ends in a draw.
WTC prize money
- Winning team: $ 1.6 million and the ICC Test Championship Mace
- Runner-up: $8,00,000
- Third: $ 450,000
- Fourth: $350,000
- Fifth: $200,000
- Remaining four teams to get $100000 each
