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New Zealand Inaugural Test Champions

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The Inaugural test championship came to an end with New Zealand being crowned champions of the ultimate format of the game. With rain washing out 2 days of play the reserve day came into play and it was the decisive day as to who would be walking away as the champions of the ultimate test.

New Zealand came into Day 6 requiring 6 wickets to bowel India and then come out and chase the score India put on the board. Their bowlers came and stuck to their plans and bowled relentlessly and manage to bowl India out for 170. This meant India had a lead of 138. 

New Zealand came out to bat the last 4 and half hours of the match requiring 139 to win from 53 overs. The New Zealand Openers started steadily before R. Ashwin dismissed both of them to give India some hope but the experienced pair of captain Williamson and Taylor made sure they saw their team over the line to be crowned Inaugural test champions.

The scorecard looked like this 

India 217  92.1 overs

A. Rahane 49 ( 117)                                                               K. Jamieson 5-31 (22)

V. Kohli   44 ( 132)                                                                 N. Wagner  2-40 (15)


New Zealand 249  99.2 overs

D. Conway 54 ( 153)                                                              M. Shami 4- 76 (26)

K. Williamson 49 (177)                                                           I. Sharma 3-48 (25)


India 170  73 overs 

R . Pant 41  (88)                                                                    T. Southee 4-48 (19)

R. Sharma 30 (81)                                                                 T. Boult    3-39( 15)


New Zealand 140/2   45.5 overs

K. Williamson 52 (89)                                                           R. Ashwin 2-17 (10)

R. Taylor         47 (100)


New Zealand won by 8 wickets and are the Inaugural World Test Champions 


This is the final Table for WTC cycle one 


The final Prize distribution is 

New Zealand 1.6 million dollars 

India  800 thousand dollars

Australia  450 thousand dollars 

England  350 thousand dollars 

South Africa 200 thousand dollars 

Pakistan    100 thousand dollars 

Sri Lanka  100 thousand dollars 

West Indies  100 thousand dollars 

Bangladesh  100 thousand dollars


This was the action of the final of the World test championship. Do share your thoughts on the World Test championship final in the comments section.


Writer : Ebrahim Yusuf Omar 

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