The fourth phase of the World Test Championship organized by the International Cricket Council is scheduled to begin in June this year.
The final match of the 2023-25 third phase will begin on June 11 at Lord’s, and South Africa and Australia have already reserved their places there.
After that, the fourth phase of 2025-27 will begin and on June 20, England and India will start a 5-match Test series, Sri Lanka-Bangladesh 2-match Test series and Australia and West Indies 3-match Test series will start in June. .
The schedules of the two tournaments have not been released so far.
Under this, Sri Lanka is going to play 6 tournaments, and the number of matches included is 12. Sri Lanka and Bangladesh will play 12 matches in this tournament, while Australia has the highest number of matches with 22 matches.
England will play 21 matches, India 18 matches, New Zealand 16 matches, South Africa and West Africa will play 14 matches each, while Pakistan will have 13 matches. Under this championship, Sri Lanka is going to play 3 tournaments in this country and 3 tournaments in foreign countries.
While India, South Africa and Bangladesh will tour the country, Sri Lanka will play the rest of the series in New Zealand, West Africa and Pakistan. Australia and England are not competing against Sri Lanka in this championship.
However, the number of matches that Sri Lanka has this year in this 3-year championship is 2. Those are just the two matches against Bangladesh.
Sri Lankan senior cricketer and former captain Angelo Mathews has left a note on his x account and said that he regrets the test matches that the Sri Lankan Test team has to play this year.
Sri Lanka team is scheduled to play two Test matches against Australia in Galle next month, but those matches belong to the 2023-25 phase.
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