Over-by-over report: The 2019 series gets under way at Edgbaston. Join Adam Collins and Rob Smyth for the opening day
What do we think of the World Test Championship? It begins today as well, don’t you know. The main thing you will notice this morning is that there are numbers on the players’ shirts. But there is more to it than that. The WTC, in short: The top nine ICC Test nations play six bilateral series against each other over two years before a final at Lord’s. Correct, that means each team won’t play two others. It’s not elegant.
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