Ashes to kick off new World Test Championship

NEW DELHI: The Ashes between most despised adversaries England and Australia will commence the mammoth new World Test Championship in July one year from now, as per a world administering body plan discharged Wednesday.

The nine best positioned sides on the planet will contend in the new touranment, with each side playing six arrangement on a home-and-away premise against commonly chosen adversaries in a two-year cycle.

Pakistan, who begin their Test title travel in October one year from now in Sri Lanka, have not been given an arrangement against India in the midst of becoming political strains between the two nations.

The five-Test powder will commence the primary title in July one year from now, with the finish two groups to square off in a June 2021 last.

Other Test arrangement in the program incorporate the West Indies' three-Test voyage through India and New Zealand facilitating Sri Lanka, both in July, while the last class amusement will be in April 2021 with the West Indies going to Sri Lanka.

South Africa will kickstart their battle in India in October 2019.

The ICC gave its gesture to the Test title a year ago as a component of measures to support the hailing fortunes of the conventional five-day design darling of perfectionists however with frequently dull onlooker and watcher at home numbers.

ICC CEO David Richardson called it a "bona fide arrangement that allows fans the world over to connect consistently with universal cricket that has meaning and the likelihood of a worldwide title toward the end".

The new Future Tours Program (FTP) discharged by the ICC includes all arrangement and competitions of Test, ODI and Twenty20 cricket for the 2019-2023 period.

New Test participants Ireland and Afghanistan will play against each other in February one year from now and go onto play 12 five-day recreations each in the vicinity of 2019 and 2022.

Afghanistan have matches booked at their home base India and away against Australia, while Ireland will have New Zealand and travel to England.

The 12 Test playing countries and the Netherlands will likewise take part in a 13-group one-day global League that will go about as a capability pathway for the 50-more than 2023 World Cup.

Hosts India alongside the seven most noteworthy positioned sides in the ODI class toward the finish of March 2022 will specifically qualify, while the last five sides will get another opportunity to enter through qualifiers.

The structure of the men's FTP (2018-23) incorporates:

ICC Cricket World Cup - 2019 and 2023

ICC World T20 - 2020 and 2021

World Test Championship

Cycle 1 - 2019-2021 (last 2021)

Cycle 2 - 2021-2023 (last 2023)

Every single respective Test, ODIs and T20Is outside of the above rivalries.