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New Delhi. The World Test Championship Final between India and Australia (India vs Australia) starting from June 7 will be a big opportunity for Team India to overcome the disappointment of the defeat from New Zealand in the WTC final 2021. Rohit Sharma’s brigade will leave no stone unturned to win this match and win the WTC final for the second time. Team India’s eyes are set on ending their many years of ‘dry’ of ICC trophy by hitting ‘final punch’. The Indian team has not been able to win the ICC trophy for the last 10 years. The team won the Champions Trophy for the last time in 2013 under the captaincy of MS Dhoni. Talking about WTC Final 2021, the Indian team had to face an 8-wicket defeat in this match.
In the 2021 final held in Southampton, the captain of the Indian team was Virat Kohli, while the captain of New Zealand was Kane Williamson. In this match, Team India could not implement its plan properly, apart from this there were some strategic lapses which New Zealand team took full advantage of. Let us know, which things were heavy on Team India in this match.
Not feeding 4 fast bowlers: The final of WTC 2021 was played from 18 to 23 June. England’s wickets are helpful for swing/fast bowling. In such a situation, the New Zealand team did their homework well. While the Kiwi team entered the match with five 5 bowlers (Tim Southee, Trent Boult, Neil Wagner, Kyle Jameson and Colin de Grandhomme), India had 3 fast bowlers (Bumrah, Shami and Ishant Sharma) and two spinners (Ashwin and Jadeja). with. This decision of India was wrong. With the intention of strengthening the batting, he did not take the risk of keeping Umesh Yadav in the playing XI. There was a good performance of fast bowlers in the match, while Ashwin was able to take four wickets in the match and Jadeja took only one wicket. In the final of WTC-2023 also, the team is in the same dilemma whether to go with three fast bowlers or with four.
Virat accepted the mistake: After the defeat, Virat Kohli accepted in a subdued tone that the bowling combination was wrong for him. He said that we thought that this is our best combination and spinners will have a good role in the match. He said that we do not have a fast bowling all-rounder, so this decision had to be taken to strengthen the batting.
Failure to capitalize on the opening partnership: In the first innings, Rohit Sharma (34) and Shubman Gill (28) added 62 runs for the first wicket. In such a situation, it was the responsibility of the other batsmen of the team to reach the score of 350 to 400 but they failed. The Indian team was able to score only 217 runs in the first innings. It cannot be considered a match winning score.
The bowlers made a comeback but the batters again fussed: In response to India’s 217 runs in the first innings, New Zealand had scored 134 runs for three wickets at one time, but after that, thanks to the fast bowlers, Team India came back and limited the Kiwi team to 249. Shami took four and Ishant took three wickets. New Zealand was able to take a lead of only 32 runs, but in the second innings, the Indian batsmen again performed poorly and the team was bundled out for 170 runs. New Zealand got an easy target of 139 runs which they achieved by losing two wickets.
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Failure of Jasprit Bumrah. The Indian team entered the finals expecting a great performance from Jasprit Bumrah but he could not live up to the expectations. Jaspreet remained wicketless in any test. Such an opportunity rarely comes but he could not take any wicket in the entire match.
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Tags: ICC, IND vs AUS, IND vs NZ WTC Final, India vs Australia, WTC Final
FIRST PUBLISHED : June 05, 2023, 15:30 IST
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