ICC has announced that the winner of the World Test Championship will receive USD 1.6 million as prize money, which equals to Rs 11.70 crores in Indian rupees. Whereas the runner-up team will get an amount of $ 8,00,000.
WTC is a nine-team competition, which was played over a near two-year cycle, adding context to Test cricket and to crown the first official world champions in the longest format of the game, International Cricket Council said.
England receives a lot of rain during the month of June. It has also been seen in Southampton that rain has been disrupted in many matches. In such a situation, keeping this in mind, the ICC has kept a reserve day for the WTC final match.
If the result is not available after five days, then reserve day will be used. However, if the result of this match is not found even on the sixth day, then both the teams will be considered joint winners. In the case of a joint winner, an equal amount of 1.2-1.2 million will be distributed to both teams.
India has to play a five-Test series against England after playing the final of the World Test Championship.