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Australia will be playing three Test matches on their tour to West Indies in the summer of 2025, which will be a part of the next World Test Championship (WTC) cycle in 2025-27 seasons. After both the teams were initially slated to compete in only two Test matches next year, Cricket Australia (CA) and Cricket West Indies (CWI) agreed to add an extra Test to the schedule, making it a three-match Test series between two teams, the first of its kind since 2015.
The last time these two cricket teams played a three-match Test series, for the Frank-Worrell Trophy, hosts Australia defeated West Indies by 2-0 scoreline after winning in Hobart and Melbourne, following which the third and final Test match was a rain-affected draw in Sydney in early 2016. Australia have managed to retain the Frank-Worrell Trophy for the last 30 years or so, winning 11 of the previous 13 series against West Indies, while two have ended in draws.
West Indies defeated Australia in their last Test meeting at the Gabba in early 2024
But, in their previous series, West Indies defeated Australia by just eight runs in the second and final Test at the Gabba in Brisbane earlier this year, to level it up at 1-1 after losing the first match in Adelaide. Ahead of their corresponding Test series in the next WTC cycle, West Indies and Australia were required to play a minimum of two matches, but they have now agreed to add an extra Test to it.
In his latest interview on the SEN Radio, Nick Hockley, the chief executive of Cricket Australia (CA), spoke about the upcoming Test series against West Indies next year. He was quoted as saying, as per ESPNcricinfo, “I am really glad that is going to manifest. We're still waiting for an official announcement from the West Indies Cricket Board around precise dates and precise locations but it will be a three-Test series which is obviously big.”
