ICC World Test Championship Final 2027 (WTC 2025–2027) Live Streaming, TV Channels, Schedule, Teams & Points Table
The ICC World Test Championship (WTC) 2025 – 2027 cycle wraps up with its final in June 2027 at The Oval, London the same venue that hosted the 2021–2023 final. The two teams that finish top of the points table at the end of the two-year cycle will meet for the Test mace. Here’s everything currently confirmed about the final, plus the rules, points table, and previous winners, updated as the cycle progresses.
| Cycle | ICC World Test Championship 2025–2027 |
| Cycle dates | June 17, 2025 – ~March 2027 (league phase) |
| Final venue | The Oval, London (confirmed by ICC) |
| Final dates | To be confirmed (previous finals ran mid-June) |
| Finalists | To be confirmed — top 2 teams by PCT at cycle end |
| Defending champions | South Africa (won the 2023–2025 final) |
| Match format | One-off Test, 5 days (+ reserve day) |
WTC 2027 Final: Live Streaming & TV Channels
Global broadcast rights for ICC events (including the WTC Final) run on multi-year cycles, and several territories already have their rights holder locked in through 2027–28.
| Country/Region | TV Channel | Streaming Platform |
|---|---|---|
| Pakistan | PTV Sports, Geo Super | Tamasha, Tapmad, ARY ZAP |
| India | Star Sports | JioHotstar |
| United Kingdom | Sky Sports Cricket | Sky Go |
| United States & Canada | Willow TV | Willow TV App |
| Australia | Fox Sports / Amazon | Prime Video |
| South Africa & Sub-Saharan Africa | SuperSport | SuperSport App |
| New Zealand | Sky Sport NZ | Sky Sport Now |
| Bangladesh | Nagorik TV | Toffee App |
| Sri Lanka | Maharaja TV | — |
The World Test Championship Final 2027 will be telecast on Star Sports Network in India. The live streaming will be available on JioStar and SonyLiv App and Website.
SuperSport to telecast live coverage of the WTC – World Test Championship Final 2027 in Sub-Saharan Africa region. The matches will be streamed live on SuperSport App and Website.
In Australia, Fox Sports acquired the official broadcasting rights of the WTC Final 2027. The matches will be broadcast live on Foxtel App and Kayo Sports.
Cricket fans in the United States can watch the finale on Willow by Cricbuzz. Viewers in the United Kingdom will enjoy the broadcast on Sky Sports Cricket. In Pakistan, Tapmad TV will provide the live streaming of the WTC final 2027.
For the rest of the world, ICC website will entertain the cricket fans, while Freehit EU let’s you watch the entire five-days match online.
Previous ICC World Test Championship Winners
| Cycle | Final Venue | Result | Champion |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019–2021 | The Rose Bowl, Southampton | New Zealand beat India by 8 wickets | New Zealand |
| 2021–2023 | The Oval, London | Australia beat India by 209 runs | Australia |
| 2023–2025 | Lord’s, London | South Africa beat Australia by 5 wickets | South Africa |
| 2025–2027 | The Oval, London | To be played (June 2027) | TBC |
Before we get to 2027, here’s how the last cycle ended, since it’s the story every 2027 finalist will be chasing to repeat: South Africa beat Australia by 5 wickets at Lord’s on June 14, 2025, chasing down 282 behind a match-winning century from Aiden Markram (136) and a gutsy fifty from captain Temba Bavuma. It was South Africa’s first-ever WTC title and their first ICC trophy in 27 years — and it ended Australia’s bid to defend the mace they’d won in 2023.
WTC Final Format & Rules Explained
- Duration: 5 days, with a 6th reserve day available if play is lost to weather.
- Result mechanism: standard Test result (win/loss); if the match — including the reserve day — ends without a result, the trophy is shared by both finalists rather than decided by a tiebreaker like boundary count.
- Overs and conditions: played under standard Test match playing conditions, with a neutral match referee and umpiring panel appointed by the ICC.
- Qualification cutoff: determined purely by league-phase PCT — there’s no separate play-off or wildcard round.
- Prize money: the WTC 2023–2025 champions (South Africa) received US$1.6 million, with the runners-up earning US$800,000; expect a similar structure for 2027 unless the ICC announces a revised prize pool.