Veteran Australia spinner Nathan Lyon has proposed a three-match World Test Championship (WTC) final across continents. The expansion to a multi-match format, he believes would capture the essence of Test cricket more instead of a single match where the result can be decided on an individual session.

“One thing I would like to see, I’d like to see the World Test Championship Final potentially in a three-match series. That may become a little bit better because you potentially can lose a Test match in one session where [in a three-match series] it may allow teams to bounce back and show their dominance and win 3-0. We’re pretty time-poor anyway and that’s going to be a challenge but that’s one thing I would change,” Lyon said to ICC.

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However, Nathan Lyon shared the idea, saying that the matches can be in India, Australia and England as well. India have reached the WTC final both times and have lost both, once to New Zealand and then to Australia with both finals played in England as well. This time the final will be played at Lord’s in from June 11.

“You potentially could go one in England, one in India, one in Australia, so you have all different conditions, but obviously, the timing of that changes everything. I don’t think we’re going to get on the MCG in the middle of August, just putting it out there,” he said.

“Oh, yeah. I’ll just say it’s [World Test Championship] the pinnacle for Test cricket. People say it’s sometimes a dead rubber when you turn 2-0 up in a three-match series or whatever it may be. But I feel like there’s no more dead rubbers. I’ve never considered them dead rubbers, but there’s always points on offer now. You look at us last year losing against the West Indies at the Gabba hurt us a fair bit,” he concluded. “It’s not tournament play. You can’t just be scraping into the semi-finals and losing two games or what not. You’ve got to be consistent over the two years of the cycle.”