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Scott Boland and Pat Cummins struck in quick succession as Australian cemented their strong position in the World Test Championship final at The Oval. At tea on the second afternoon, India were 37-2, still 432 runs in arrears. After wrapping up Australia’s first innings for 469, the Indian camp needed a steady start. For a while, Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill looked in good touch, adding 30 runs in just six overs. Both looked to employ the pull shot, with Gill even cracking one in front of square on the on-side off Cummins. Cummins then decided to replace Mitchell Starc…



Gloomy grey skies, rain forecast for later in the match. A generous smattering of grass on the surface. There are a number of mitigating factors that the Indian think-tank could point to for not selecting R Ashwin in the playing XI for the World Test Championship (WTC) final. But as the opening day wore on, with India’s bowlers not able to exert a semblance of control under an ever-brighter sun, it was hard not to look at Ashwin sitting in the stands and think: What if? Leaving any emotion aside, the facts themselves are pretty instructive. Since Ashwin became a…

Written By Vaibhav Tripathi According to Paras Mhambrey, India’s bowling coach, the decision to exclude Ravichandran Ashwin, the off-spinner currently ranked No.1 in the Test format, from the World Test Championship (WTC) final was influenced by the conditions observed on the morning of the match. Mhambrey also expressed his concerns about the bowlers’ performance, noting that they appeared flat and lacked discipline after the initial hour on day one. That allowed the Australian batsmen to score freely and reach a total of 327 for 3 by the end of the opening day. Considering the conditions at The Oval, India decided…

Vaibhav Tripathi Ross Taylor, the inaugural World Test Championship (WTC) winner, expressed his belief that Ravichandran Ashwin would have been a formidable option against Australia’s left-handed batters in the WTC final. Taylor also said that he understood the reasoning behind including four seamers, considering the prevailing conditions at The Oval. “Australia have 5 lefties.. he could have been a handful against them but I understand the decision that Rohit (Sharma) and Rahul (Dravid) took with grass and weather around,” Taylor said in an exclusive chat with RevSportz. The rise in popularity of T20 cricket has made it the most favoured…

While the World Test Championship final is on at The Oval, administrators from across Asia are also in London to work on the fate of the Asia Cup. And a very senior source close to the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) confirmed that they were very close to a resolution. And interestingly, it would likely be announced by both India and Pakistan on the same day. So what could be the solution to the impasse? From what we understand, the hybrid model proposed by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) could well be adopted with a tweak. The ACC is determined to…

Travis Head (60 not out) and Steve Smith built on the decent platform built by David Warner as they finished the afternoon session of the World Test Championship final against India on 170 for 3. Australia, who had commenced the second session on 73 for 3, suffered an early dent when Marnus Labuschagne was cleaned up by Mohammed Shami. Shami, who was perhaps guilty of bowling a tad short earlier, was rewarded for bowling full and extracting enough seam movement to sneak one through Labuschagne’s defence. At that juncture, with the score reading 76 for 3, India would have believed…