{"id":264522,"date":"2025-03-22T15:43:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T15:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/22\/sourav-ganguly-led-icc-committee-to-decide-on-world-test-championship-format-overhaul\/"},"modified":"2025-03-22T15:43:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T15:43:33","slug":"sourav-ganguly-led-icc-committee-to-decide-on-world-test-championship-format-overhaul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/22\/sourav-ganguly-led-icc-committee-to-decide-on-world-test-championship-format-overhaul\/","title":{"rendered":"Sourav Ganguly-Led ICC Committee To Decide On World Test Championship Format Overhaul"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/feeds.abplive.com\/onecms\/images\/uploaded-images\/2025\/03\/22\/431ce7a13826be4e1642db17910ea8511742655983356936_original.jpg?impolicy=abp_cdn&amp;imwidth=1200&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Sourav Ganguly-Led ICC Committee To Decide On World Test Championship Format Overhaul\" title=\"Sourav Ganguly-Led ICC Committee To Decide On World Test Championship Format Overhaul\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-hstick-inner\">\n<p>ICC chairman Jay Shah on Saturday confirmed that the Sourav Ganguly-led Cricket Committee will take a final call on the proposed revamp of the World Test Championship for the 2025-27 cycle next month.<\/p>\n<p>The 16-member Cricket Committee is headed by former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly and includes former cricketers VVS Laxman, Daniel Vettori, Mahela Jayawardene, and Shaun Pollock, among others.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Proposals have come in, but I am not fully aware of them. The Cricket Committee will make the decision,&#8221; Shah, who is here for the IPL 2025 opener, told PTI.<\/p>\n<p>The ICC is reportedly considering a significant overhaul of the WTC points system after receiving feedback on two completed cycles.<\/p>\n<p>Among the proposals is to create a bonus points system to reward dominant victories and additional incentives for away wins. The ICC Board will deliberate on these modifications in its April meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Under the current system, teams earn 12 points for a win (regardless of margin), 6 points for a tie, and 4 points for a draw.<\/p>\n<p>However, critics argue that this format does not adequately reward commanding performances. The revised system is expected to factor in the margin of victory and the strength of opponents.<\/p>\n<p>The ICC is exploring the possibility of awarding extra points for convincing wins to encourage teams to push for outright results rather than settling for narrow victories.<\/p>\n<p>The long-standing debate over a two-tier Test system, strongly backed by Cricket Australia, is also expected to resurface.<\/p>\n<p>While the backers argue that it would improve competitiveness, concerns remain that it could further marginalise lower-ranked teams, limiting their opportunities to grow and compete at the highest level.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa and Australia are set to face off in the WTC 2025-27 final on June 11.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>(This report has been published as part of the auto-generated syndicate wire feed. Apart from the headline, no editing has been done in the copy by ABP Live.)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.abplive.com\/sports\/cricket\/sourav-ganguly-led-icc-committee-to-decide-on-world-test-championship-wtc-format-overhaul-1759738\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ICC chairman Jay Shah on Saturday confirmed that the Sourav Ganguly-led Cricket Committee will take a final call on the proposed revamp of the World Test Championship for the 2025-27 cycle next month. The 16-member Cricket Committee is headed by former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly and includes former cricketers VVS Laxman, Daniel Vettori, Mahela Jayawardene, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/feeds.abplive.com\/onecms\/images\/uploaded-images\/2025\/03\/22\/431ce7a13826be4e1642db17910ea8511742655983356936_original.jpg?impolicy=abp_cdn&imwidth=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[605],"tags":[1097,6926,263,36800,203574,1310,14667,20783,16003,848,1052,15021,22374],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264522"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264524,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264522\/revisions\/264524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}