WTC Final: ICC announces prize money for winners and runners-up of India vs New Zealand clash – check out

In case the final ends in a draw or a tie, the finalists will split the prize money for the first and second places.

The winners of the much-awaited ICC World Test Championship (WTC) final between India and New Zealand will take home a purse of USD 1.6 million (Rs 11.72 crore approx) along with the ICC Test Championship Mace, the International Cricket Council announced on Monday. The losing team will get USD 800,000 (Rs 5.86 crore approx) for finishing second in the 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. The prize money for the team finishing third in the ICC World Test Championship Standings is USD 450,000. The team fourth on the table will be awarded USD 350,000, the one that finishes fifth gets USD 200,000 while the remaining four teams will get USD 100,000 each.