South Africa won the World Test Championship title, but why did India get the prize money of crores
The final match of the World Test Championship 2023-25 was played at the grounds of the historic Lord’s, where South Africa defeated Australia by 6 wickets not only won the World Test Championship 2025 title, but also won the ICC Trophy for the first time since 1998.
This victory is very important and special for South Africa, when the African team led by Temba Bavuma dashed Australia and won the victory. With this victory, South Africa also received a huge prize money of $ 36 lakh (about 30 crore rupees) from ICC.
India also received crores of money
The team could not reach India final, but finished third in the WTC points table. Due to this place, the team India has also received a hefty amount. India played a total of 19 matches in this cycle, out of which 9 won, 8 and 2 were drawn. India’s account scored a total of 114 points and its points were 50.00. Due to this performance, the Board of Control for Cricket in India has received prize money of $ 14.40 lakh (about Rs 12 crore) from the ICC.
Other teams also got a thick reward
In the World Test Championship, not only the finalist teams, but all the 9 teams were given prize money on the basis of their performance. The runner -up Australia received an amount of $ 21.60 million (about Rs 18 crore), while New Zealand, who finished fourth, got 1.2 million dollars.
England was given a prize money of $ 9.60 million to finish fifth, Sri Lanka $ 8.40 million for sixth position, Bangladesh $ 7.20 million, West Indies $ 6 lakh and Pakistan to finish 4.80 million to finish ninth place.
ICC had kept the biggest prize pool this time
Significantly, this time the ICC declared the biggest prize pool for the World Test Championship. Its purpose was to promote Test cricket and give all teams financially benefited from their hard work.
