Know about the prize money of the World Test Championship here (Photo- Paul Kane/Getty Images)
The countdown of the final of the ICC World Test Championship 2025 has started. The final match will be played between Australia and South Africa at Lord’s Stadium in London. The final match starts from June 11. Both teams have many dhakad players who would like to leave their mark in this final. In this match, while Australia will be seen captaining the captaincy of the team on one side, the captaincy of the South Africa team has been handed over to Temba Bawuma. Both eyes will be on winning the World Test Championship trophy. But do you know how much prize money will be received by the winning team?
WTC Final 2025 will rain money on winning
This is the third edition of the ICC WTC final. The final winning team will get $ 3.6 million as total prize money. That is, the team winning around Rs 30.88 crore will get. This prize money is much higher than the last two editions 2021 and 2023. The total prize money in the last two editions was $ 1.6 million. At the same time, the team losing in the finals will get $ 2.16 million i.e. around Rs 18.50 crore. The last time this amount was US $ 8,00,000. It is a matter of case that the ICC is ready to give a big reward to make Test cricket popular. This can be understood like this. Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) received a reward of Rs 20 crore for winning the IPL 2025 trophy.
Whatever team wins on the World Test Championship 2025 will create history. This is because if Australia won this title, it will name this trophy for the second consecutive time. At the same time, the South Africa team would like to win the World Test Championship Trophy for the first time. Australia defeated India in the last final while New Zealand won the first season of the World Test Championship. This time the prize money is also high and both teams are also fully ready for the upcoming challenge.
South Africa and Australia reached such finals
South Africa topped the WTC point table. She became the first team to make it to the finals at Lord’s. South Africa has ventured into the final by drawing a home series against India as well as a series of series against Pakistan, West Indies, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. At the same time, Australia confirmed their place in the final with a 3–1 win over India in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Also, defeating Pakistan 3–0 at home and winning the series against New Zealand and Sri Lanka are also included.