Top 10 changes in cricket in the past decade

#2. World Test Championship

Started in August 2019, the current World Test Championship will conclude in 2021

Most international players will say that they consider Test cricket to be the ultimate form of cricket and that they'd do anything to leave their mark in that format. However, other than a few high-profile bilateral series, there wasn't any standout tournament that could have been considered to be the pinnacle of Test cricket.

The ICC finally rectified this by introducing the ICC World Test Championship this year. The top nine of the twelve test playing nations are part of this tournament, which will be played over a period of two years. Each team will be contesting a total of six test series -- three to be played at home and three away. Each series will constitute 120 points.

The number of points per match will be based on the number of matches in a series. If a series has only two matches, each game will carry 60 points whereas, in a five-match series, each game will carry 24 points. What the test championship has done (and is also likely to do further) is that it has added context to every match and every series being played. For those crucial points, teams will look to go for the kill, thereby bringing excitement to Test cricket.