World Test Championship

The World Test Championship is a cricket competition that is being held every ten years. The tournament which first began in 1912 in England has had five editions been played with England hosting the World Test Championship three times. Across it's five editions, 11 teams have competed in the tournament with three different winners. That being England, Australia and India.

History
The formation of the World Test Championship began back in 1909 when the Imperial Cricket Council met up in London to talk about setting up a tournament for the test nations at the time (Australia, England, South Africa). The proposal which initially was going to be over four years and saw prominence of an international tournament from the FIFA World Cup that was held only six years prior in neighboring France. During the 1911–12 Ashes series that was being held, a discussion between the English and Australian representatives talked about bringing in a fourth team into the tournament with Ireland or Scotland possibly joining in. The discussion would eventually lead into Ireland joining the tournament.

Though the first edition almost had drama before the tournament with the Big Six in Australian credit threatening to withdraw from the tournament unless their team manager Frank Laver was chosen. Seeing what damage could happen, they made a compromise with the group to indicate that they would have that team manager but starting from the next English tour which would have been 1916, the manager role would be taken by the board instead.

1912
The first test championship was held in England with four teams competing. The teams that played in the first championship being Australia, England, South Africa and guest team New Zealand. But for New Zealand they had a tough time, losing all three of their matches by close to an innings. But on the top of the leaderboard was England as they won all three of their matches to end up on top of the table with Australia and South Africa tying for second place after drawing their match in Old Trafford.

1922
The second edition of the test championship stayed in England with Argentina joining the four teams that played in 1912. For the debuts, they struggled as they only drew one match against New Zealand who came into test cricket officially in 1919. Australia would come out on top after drawing with England at Lords. For the defending champions, England came in third place after losing to South Africa in Manchester.

1931-32
1931-32 was the season for firsts. For starters, there were eights teams that joined with four of them (Egypt, India, West Indies and Rhodesia) competing for the first time. It was also the first time that it was held in another country other than England with Australia hosting the competition over a two month period in the early part of the year. The four finalists were the main four teams with England taking the win after defeating Australia in the final at the MCG.

Semi Finals

 * England def South Africa
 * Australia def India

Final

 * England (434 & 4/105) def Australia (237 & 300)

1951-52
The 1952 tournament was the first tournament to be split into two countries with England and South Africa hosting a group stage before the final being held in England once again.

Semi Finals
England drew with Australia (Australia advances by being higher) West Indies def South Africa

Final
Australia (452 & 7/190) def West Indies (387 & 255)

1961-62
The 1962 tournament was the first tournament to be split into two countries with the West Indies and Australia hosting a group stage before the final being held in India for the first time.

Semi Finals
India def Australia England def West Indies

Final
England (232 & 4/101) drew with India (379 & 6/227 dec)