India or New Zealand will pick up £1.135million for winning the World Test Championship while England have been awarded £250,000 for finishing fourth.
Test cricket’s inaugural champions will be crowned next week, with the losers in the showpiece match in Southampton - to be contested in front of 4,000 crowds daily from Friday - taking home £567,000.
If the match is drawn, the two finalists will share the Test mace and split the prize money for first and second places equally.
Kane Williamson’s New Zealand - who claimed series victory over England in his absence via a crushing win at Edgbaston last weekend - take on Virat Kohl’s number one-ranked Indian team following two years of qualification.