WTC 2023 Final IND vs AUS Match Live Score Updates: Here are the two squads
Australia: David Warner, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Steven Smith, Travis Head, Cameron Green, Alex Carey(w), Pat Cummins(c), Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Scott Boland, Josh Inglis, Todd Murphy, Michael Neser, Marcus Harris
India: Rohit Sharma(c), Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, Srikar Bharat(w), Ishan Kishan, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Shardul Thakur, Mohammed Shami, Umesh Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, Jaydev Unadkat
Who will win the Test Mace at WTC? Australia more balanced, India start on the backfoot
Sunshine gleamed from every footage from Arundel and Beckenham, the training base for India and Australia for the World Test Championship at Oval, which again, as the photographs captured, glistened in a pre-summer glow. But England summers are different from those of India and Australia. The sun never bakes like in India; it does not scorch like in Australia. Some of India’s batsmen wore windbreakers and floppy hats, some of the less acclimatized Australians wore skull caps and jackets for a swing at the Formby Golf Club.
The weather is but just one of the factors both teams would have to adjust before the Oval showdown to crown the new monarchs of Test cricket. after a rushed and sweaty build-up with no form book, no tour games, no trash talk, or no grand swooping narrative arcs to be completed. There is the whimsy mood of the wine-red, hand-stitched Dukes’ ball to be mastered; there is an unknown pitch to be conquered—no Test has ever been played at the Oval in early June; Test-match habits and tempo have to be reacquainted with after an Indian summer of IPL. (READ SANDIP G’s PREVIEW OF THE FINAL)
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