Proteas to host Aussies, Poms in next WTC

The world champion Proteas will play 14 Tests across six series in the 2025-27 World Test Championship.

As per the previous cycles, nine teams will contest the WTC and each nation will play six other sides – three home and three away – over the course of the two-year period.

The Proteas, who have no home Test cricket scheduled for the 2025-26 season, have three home series against Australia (three matches), Bangladesh (two) and England (three), and three away series against Pakistan (two), India (two) and Sri Lanka (two).

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Sri Lanka’s two-Test series at home against Bangladesh, which begins on 17 June, is the first contest of the 2025-27 cycle and soon overlaps with a five-Test showdown between England and India. The two teams will go head-to-head at Headingley, Edgbaston, Lord’s, Old Trafford and The Oval in the coming weeks.

Beaten finalists Australia begin their bid to regain their WTC crown in the Caribbean as they take on the West Indies in a three-Test series for the right to lift the Frank Worrell Trophy.

The points percentage system used in the previous two editions will determine the leaderboard with teams getting 12 points for a win, six for a tie and four for a draw.