New Delhi : India and Australia are all set to lock horns for the upcoming World Test Championship, which will start on June 7 at the Oval Ground in London. It will be India’s second consecutive WTC final, having lost the first one against New Zealand in 2021.
Both teams are competing for their first Test Series championship. While India will strive to break their jinx of not winning an ICC trophy in the last ten years, Australia wants to win this title to demonstrate their dominance in the world of Test cricket.
However, Team India is not going to take any chances this time. The team’s main batters, including Virat Kohli, Shubman Gill, and Cheteshwar Pujara, are all in excellent form. Rahane has also demonstrated his mettle. Siraj and Muhhamad Shami will lead the Indian pace assault in the absence of Jasprit Bumrah, who was unable to recuperate from his injury. It is now time for them to put their best foot forward in the last encounter. It is believed that after 2013,
Team India would win their maiden ICC title.
The India-Australia rivalry dates back to the late 1990s. At the time, Australia was the undisputed number one team in both test and ODI cricket, and the Indian team was considered rather poor. However, India began to rise up against Australia and played their finest game.
Team India ended Australia’s 16-match winning streak in Kolkata in 2001. The key reason for India and Australia’s heated rivalry is that they play a bilateral series against one other virtually every year, In addition, it looks that Australia and India are more evenly matched teams, notably in Tests and ODIs
India also became the first Asian country to defeat Australia in a test series on their home turf twice in a row, in 2018-19 and 2020-21, demonstrating India’s dominance over Australia. In addition, Australia has not beaten India in a bilateral test series since 2014.
The India-Australia match is more about the pure thrill of witnessing excellent cricket games than about national jingo. Both teams hurl everything they have on the field. Cricket fans are hoping that this final will be a great test match that will be permanently imprinted in the memories of cricket fans across the globe.
Australia squad: Pat Cummins (c), Scott Boland, Alex Carey (wk),
Cameron Green, Marcus Harris, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Josh Inglis
(wk), Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon, Todd Murphy,
Steve Smith (vc), Mitchell Starc, David Warner
Standby players: Mitch Marsh, Matthew Renshaw
India squad: Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat
Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, KS Bharat (wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra
Jadeja, Axar Patel, Shardul Thakur, Mohd. Shami, Mohd. Siraj, Umesh
Yadav, Jaydev Unadkat, Ishan Kishan (wk)
Standby players: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Mukesh Kumar, Suryakumar Yadav
