SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 13 September 2024, Shift 2 · General Awareness · Question 6 of 99

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Which of the following nations won the ICC World Test Championship, defeating India, in 2023?

(a)Australia
(b)England
(c)South Africa
(d)New Zealand

Answer

Why

Correct — A. Australia beat India in the final of the ICC World Test Championship 2021-23, played at The Oval in London in June 2023.

It was Australia's first World Test Championship title and India's second successive defeat in the final, after losing the inaugural one in 2021.

Option (a) is the nation the stem describes.

Why the others are wrong

(b)
England — England did not play the 2023 title match. Hosting the final at The Oval is not the same as contesting it.
(c)
South Africa — South Africa did win a World Test Championship, the 2023-25 final against Australia at Lord's, but not the 2023 final against India.
(d)
New Zealand — New Zealand beat India in the inaugural final in 2021 at Southampton. Right opponent, wrong year, because the stem fixes 2023.

Concept

The World Test Championship is the ICC's league competition for Test cricket, launched in 2019.

Teams play an agreed set of series over roughly two years, are ranked by the percentage of available points won, and the top two meet in a single final.

India reached the first two finals and lost both — to New Zealand in 2021 and to Australia in 2023. South Africa took the third title, beating Australia at Lord's in 2025.

This stem is a winner-and-year pairing, so fix tournament, year and winner together rather than memorising scorelines.

Key facts

Australia won the ICC World Test Championship 2021-23 final against India at The Oval in June 2023.
New Zealand won the inaugural World Test Championship final against India in 2021.
South Africa won the 2023-25 World Test Championship final against Australia at Lord's in 2025.

Study next

ICC tournament winners across formats and their yearsThe World Test Championship points and percentage systemIndia's record in ICC finals

Common traps

Mixing the 2021 and 2023 finals, since India lost both to different opponents.
Choosing the host nation instead of the winning nation.

ICC events recur across this corpus — India's ODI World Cup tally is asked 23 Sep 2024, 12:30, General Awareness Q.2, and 11 Sep 2024, 09:00, General Awareness Q.8 turns it around, asking in which year India did not host the tournament.

Related PYQs

No directly related past PYQ was found.