The ICC Test Championship is an international competition run by the International Cricket Council in the sport of cricket for the 10 teams that play Test cricket. The competition is notional in the sense that it is simply a ranking scheme overlaid on all international matches that are otherwise played as part of regular Test cricket scheduling with no consideration of home or away status.
In essence, after every Test series, the two teams involved receive points based on a mathematical formula. The total of each team's points total is divided by the total number of matches to give a 'rating', and the Test-playing teams are ranked by order of rating (this can be shown in a table).
The points for winning a Test match or series are greater than the team's rating, increasing the rating, and the points for losing the match or series are always less than the rating, reducing the rating. A drawn match between higher and lower rated teams will benefit the lower-rated team at the expense of the higher-rated team. An 'average' team that wins as often as it loses while playing a mix of stronger and weaker teams should have a rating of 100.
The International Cricket Council awards a trophy, the ICC Test Championship mace, to the team holding the highest rating. The mace is transferred whenever a new team moves to the top of the rating list.[1]
South Africa are currently the highest-ranked team in the ICC Test Championship having beaten Sri Lanka 1-0 in a two match series held in Sri Lanka in July 2014.
| ICC Test Championship | |
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| Administrator | International Cricket Council |
| Format | Test cricket |
| First tournament | 2003 |
| Last tournament | ongoing |
| Tournament format | notional (ongoing points accumulation through all matches played) |
| Number of teams | 10 |
| Current champion |  South Africa (124 points) |
| Most successful |  Australia (77 months |
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