The tournament consists of 27 series and 71 matches in the league stage. The top two teams in the points table compete at the final. Each team plays six series, three at home and three away, with each series containing two to five Test matches.
The points system is unchanged from the previous edition. A win is worth all 12 points, a tie is worth 6 points each, a draw is worth 4 points each, and a loss is worth 0 points. A team that is behind the required over rate at the end of a match would have one point deducted for each over it was behind (over rate deduction doesn't applied when the team all out the opponent within 80 overs) . As in the previous edition, teams are ranked in the league table based on the percentage of total points won out of total points contested.
In the event that this percentage is tied between teams, a series of tiebreaker criteria are used to determine the standings of teams, starting with the number of series wins, followed by each team's percentage in away matches, and finally the ICC Test Rankings at the end of the league stage.
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
Matches in series
Total points available
2
24
3
36
4
48
5
60
The nine full members of the ICC who will participate are:
The International Cricket Council (ICC) announced the 2023–2027 Future Tours Programme on 17 August 2022 and identified which series was a part of the World Test Championship. Rather than being a full round-robin tournament in which everyone played everyone else equally, each team played only six of the other eight as in the previous cycles. The exact dates and the venues of these series will be decided by the boards of the competing teams.
Team
Scheduled matches
Not scheduled to play against
Australia
22
England (5) New Zealand (4) Bangladesh (2)
West Indies (3) South Africa (3) India (5)
Pakistan Sri Lanka
Bangladesh
12
Pakistan (2) West Indies (2) England (2)
Sri Lanka (2) South Africa (2) Australia (2)
India New Zealand
England
21
India (5) New Zealand (3) Pakistan (3)
Australia (5) South Africa (3) Bangladesh (2)
Sri Lanka West Indies
India
18
West Indies (2) South Africa (2) Australia (5)
England (5) Sri Lanka (2) New Zealand (2)
Bangladesh Pakistan
New Zealand
16
West Indies (3) India (2) Sri Lanka (2)
England (3) Australia (4) Pakistan (2)
Bangladesh South Africa
Pakistan
13
South Africa (2) Sri Lanka (2) New Zealand (2)
Bangladesh (2) West Indies (2) England (3)
Australia India
South Africa
14
Australia (3) Bangladesh (2) England (3)
Pakistan (2) India (2) Sri Lanka (2)
New Zealand West Indies
Sri Lanka
12
Bangladesh (2) India (2) South Africa (2)
West Indies (2) Pakistan (2) New Zealand (2)
Australia England
West Indies
14
Australia (3) Sri Lanka (2) Pakistan (2)
India (2) New Zealand (3) Bangladesh (2)
England South Africa
Tie-breaking criteria
The ranking of teams in the league stage is determined as follows:
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