ICC WTC Final: The focus is slightly moving towards the ICC World Test Championship Final. India and Australia will cross swords with each other in the final of the Test Championship and it’s fair to say that both the teams will be eager to lift the trophy. The event will take place at Oval England from the 7th to the 11th of June.
ICC WTC Final: Ricky Ponting names his combined India and Australia XI ahead of Final; leaves out Josh Hazlewood
With World Test Championship final around the corner, former Australian skipper Ricky Ponting has named his combined India-Australia playing XI. There was no hesitation for him in picking captain as he picked Rohit Sharma as skipper over Pat Cummins. The Indian captain will open the innings alongside Usman Khawaja, who has been in terrific form.
At No.3 Ricky Ponting choose Marnus Labuschagne, who was followed by Virat Kohli and Steve Smith at No.4 and No.5 respectively. The trio has been the best batters going in Test cricket and have taken world cricket by storm with their heroics.
At No.5 he opted for Ravindra Jadeja and left out Cameron Green. Whereas Alex Carey is the wicketkeeper on his side. Ricky Ponting also didn’t choose R Ashwin as he went with his countrymen in Nathan Lyon as the spinner along with Ravindra Jadeja in the team.
Ricky Ponting then picked a formidable pace attack. Pat Cummins was the first-choice pacer in his team. He then picked Mitchell Starc over Josh Hazlewood as the second pacer whereas India’s Mohammad Shami
Here’s Ravi Shastri’s combined India-Australia Test XI:
Rohit Sharma (c), Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Virat Kohli, Steve Smith, Ravindra Jadeja, Alex Carey (wk), Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Mohammad Shami
ICC WTC Final: Indian and Australia squad for the ICC WTC Final
Here’s the Indian squad for the WTC Final
Rohit Sharma (Captain), Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, Ishan Kishan, KS Bharat (wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Shardul Thakur, Mohd. Shami, Mohd. Siraj, Umesh Yadav, Jaydev Unadkat.
Here’s the Australian squad for the WTC Final
Pat Cummins (captain), Scott Boland, Alex Carey, Cameron Green, Marcus Harris, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon, Mitchell Marsh, Todd Murphy, Matthew Renshaw, Steve Smith (vice-captain), Mitchell Starc, David Warner