Pat Cummins and Rohit Sharma
The Indian team will play Australia from June 7-11 at Kennington Oval in London. This match will be the final of the second edition of the World Test Championship. In this match, the Indian team led by Rohit Sharma will face the Australian team led by Pat Cummins. This is the second consecutive final for the Indian team in this championship. In the first edition, New Zealand won the title by defeating India in the final. Virat Kohli was the team captain at the time, but this time the reins are in the hands of Rohit. On the other hand, if we talk about the Oval record, then only two Indian captains have been able to win here.
In such a situation, beating Australia at the Oval against Rohit Sharma is going to be an ordeal. However, the Indian team has so far only faced England for this reason. For the first time, the Indian team will face any team other than England on this ground. The special thing is that recently in Border Gavaskar Trophy too, Team India has defeated Team Kangaroo. But those were Indian conditions, but this match will take place under English conditions, where the Indian team will have to watch out for Australian pacemakers. More than one fast pitcher like Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, Pat Cummins, Scott Boland are included in this team. In such a situation, this test of Team India will not be easy.
Only two victorious Indian captains in 87 years at The Oval
If we talk about the record of the India team at the London Oval field, then the team played the first test match here in 1936. Since then, India has played 14 test matches here. Of which 7 have been drawn and in five the team has lost. Apart from this, the Indian team has won two matches here, but two wins against five losses shows that the history of playing on this ground has not been special for the Indian team. In 1971, under the captaincy of Ajit Wadekar, the team won here for the first time, defeating England by 4 wickets. After this, in the year 2021, under the captaincy of Virat Kohli, the team recorded a resounding victory by defeating England by 157 runs. After Wadekar and Kohli, now Rohit Sharma has a chance to make history in this arena.
India last played a test match here in the year 2021 and in that match the team recorded a resounding victory under the captaincy of Virat Kohli and the coaching of Ravi Shastri. This was the same series whose last test match could not be played due to Corona. India was ahead 2-1 in this series. The team won two spectacular matches in this series, one being a 157-run victory at The Oval. The then vice-captain Rohit Sharma scored a century in this match. At the same time, the attacking pace of Umesh Yadav, Mohammad Siraj, Jaspreet Bumrah, Shardul Thakur destroyed the opposing batsmen. Although Bumrah is not there this time, Shami will lead the attacking pace this time, who is in excellent form.
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