{"id":74506,"date":"2025-05-15T16:05:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T11:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=74506"},"modified":"2025-05-15T16:05:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T11:05:55","slug":"icc-doubles-prize-money-for-world-test-championship-2023-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/icc-doubles-prize-money-for-world-test-championship-2023-25\/","title":{"rendered":"ICC doubles prize money for World Test Championship 2023-25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: The International Cricket Council (<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/bangladesh-mehdi-hasan-gets-icc-mens-player-of-month-award-for-april\/\">ICC<\/a>) has announced a massive increase in prize money for the ICC World Test Championship (WTC).<\/p>\n<p>It has released a promotional video featuring a host of past and present stars as expected for the ultimate Test.<\/p>\n<p>The total prize pool for the WTC 2023-25 \u200b\u200bfinals is USD $5.76 million, double that of the previous two editions.<\/p>\n<p>The winners of the WTC final, to be played between Australia and South Africa at Lord\u2019s from June 11-15, will receive a purse of $3.6 million, double what New Zealand (2021) and Australia (2023) earned after winning the previous two finals.<\/p>\n<p>The losing finalists will also earn more than the previously high prize money, this time assured at more than $2.1 million. The winners of the last two editions won $1.6 million while the losing finalists received $800,000.<\/p>\n<p>The increase in prize money reflects the ICC&#8217;s efforts to prioritise Test cricket as it looks to build momentum over the first three rounds of the nine-team competition.<\/p>\n<p>In the third edition, South Africa won the home series against Sri Lanka and Pakistan 2-0 to finish with 69.44 points.<\/p>\n<p>Defending champions Australia won with 67.54 points while India won with 50.00 points after leading the table for most of the time.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/bangladesh-mehdi-hasan-gets-icc-mens-player-of-month-award-for-april\/\">Bangladesh Mehdi Hasan gets ICC Men\u2019s Player of Month award for April<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Australian captain Pat Cummins said: &#8220;We are incredibly proud to have had the opportunity to defend the World Test Championship, especially at Lord&#8217;s. It is a testament to everyone involved over the last two years who have worked incredibly hard to reach the final, which is a huge honour for us all.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We look forward to reuniting in England in just a few weeks and South Africa will present a challenge at the home of cricket.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: The International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced a massive increase in prize money for the ICC World Test Championship (WTC). It has released a promotional video featuring a host of past and present stars as expected for the ultimate Test. The total prize pool for the WTC 2023-25 \u200b\u200bfinals is USD $5.76 million, double [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":74509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[461,2599,44],"class_list":["post-74506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-international-cricket-council","tag-south-africa","tag-sri-lanka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74511,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74506\/revisions\/74511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}