Rohit Sharma’s India squad will play against Pat Cummins’ Australia squad at the 2023-25 ICC World Test Championship Final
ICC World Test Championship 2023 will be a five-day Test match from June 7 to June 11. The match will take place at The Oval, London. The pitch is friendly to the bowlers as it would assist fast bowling. By the second half of the match, the surface is expected to become better for batting
Rohit Sharma (C), Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Srikar Bharat, Ishan Kishan, Shardul Thakur, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj, Umesh Yadav, Jaydev Unadkat
Pat Cummins (C), Marcus Harris, Travis Head, Usman Khawaja, Steven Smith, David Warner, Marnus Labuschagne, Cameron Green, Alex Carey, Josh Inglis, Scott Boland, Josh Hazlewood, Nathan Lyon, Todd Murphy, Mitchell Starc
The India vs Australia WTC) final 2023 will be live telecasted on Star Sports and live streamed on Disney+Hotstar
He noted that both India and Australia have not played in the longer format for some time. Performance on day 1 will be extremely crucial as it would set the tone for the rest of the tournament, he added. “I think Pat Cummins will be charged up for Australia, and I think Mohammed Shami for India (will be key)," he told ICC
Ricky Ponting told ICC, “Australia are just favourites.” He pointed out that the absence of KL Rahul and Jasprit Bumrah will be felt by the Indian team. He further said, Umesh Yadav can be either replaced by Ishan Kishan or KS Bharat. The weather will also be favourable to the Australian Team
Retired Pakistani bowler Wasim Akram also said that the weather conditions are more favourable to Australia. He said that this time the tournament is in the first week of June which might impact the performances of both the teams
Ex-England batter Ian Bell that the team winning the toss must choose to bat first as it would put some pressure on the second team. He said that both India and Australia have exhibited world-class bowling attacks
New Zealand’s Ross Taylor believes that Australia has a narrow advantage. He said that if India uses their two spinners well, they could turn the game in their favour but as Australia plays Ashes on the same pitch, they are more accustomed to the surroundings
Meanwhile, Rohit Sharma who will lead India in WTC 2023 might enter into the elite captaincy list if he manages to seal the win for the country. It has been a 10-year-long wait since MS Dhoni lifted the Champions Trophy n 2013. Further, Rohit has 4 wins from 6 Test matches followed by Kapil Dev’s 4 wins from 34 Test matches and Ajinkya Rahane who has 4 wins from 6 matches
ICC has also launched a brand-new WTC Final 2023 app for both Android and iOS users. People can watch India vs Australia LIVE match on the new app as well