Cricket: 2021 World Test Championship final on schedule

The International Cricket Council (ICC) is forging ahead with plans to stage an inaugural World Test Championship final in 2021, The Associated Press reported.

The World Twenty20 finals, scheduled for October this year, have already been canceled.

Tom Harrison, CEO of the England and Wales Cricket Board, said he had been notified by the ICC that the WTC final is “proceeding as scheduled.”

The nine test countries playing the competition were scheduled to play six series home and away over a two-year period starting in 2019.

The top two teams in the standings would then meet in the final in June 2021. These are currently India and Australia.

While England, India and Pakistan have played four series each, four countries — Sri Lanka, West Indies, South Africa and Bangladesh — have only played two. Australia and New Zealand have played three series each.

With coronavirus restrictions in place globally and varying from country to country, all fixtures are unlikely to take place.

Bangladesh, for example, has seen matches against Pakistan, Australia, Sri Lanka and New Zealand postponed,