WTC Final winning team to receive $1.6 m Daily News (via HT Media Ltd.) The winners of the ICC World Test Championship (WTC) Final between India and New Zealand will take home a purse of US $1.6m along with the ICC Test Championship Mace, the International Cricket Council announced yesterday. The losing team will receive US $800,000 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 US $450,000.