The Rohit Sharma led side faced a colossal defeat against Australia, the Aussies’ formidable bowling attack on Day 5 secured the ICC title. Australia is now the only team with all the major ICC trophies, Pat Cummins shows gratitude and contentment on their victory against India. However, Rohit Sharma expressed his desire for a three-test match series for the WTC Final.
Rohit Sharma believed that it should be 3 test match series, as the hard work and dedication shown by the Indian Team, the one-off test is not enough. He opined that a three-test match final would be more suitable for the next WTC cycle.
“No. This Has Been Decided For A Long Time, The Final Is Going To Be Just One-Off..” – Sunil Gavaskar
Sunil Gavaskar refuted Sharma’s Idea of three- test match series, he claims that both teams were already informed about the one-off test match, they have to be mentally prepared for it, the player’s cannot ask for three-test match series. He mentioned while talking to India Today:
“No. This has been decided for a long time, you know even before you enter that first match of the cycle that the final s going to be just one-off. So, you have to be prepared mentally. Just like you prepare for the IPL, you don’t say best of three,” said Suni; Gavaskar told India today.
“Everybody can have a bad day, or a couple of days, but before the first ball of the cycle you know what it is. So you can’t be asking for a best of three. Tomorrow you may say best of five,” he added.
Highlights on Day 5 of ICC WTC Finals
Day 5 started with a glimmer of hopes for India, as Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane looked solid on the crease and remained unbeaten by the end of the day 4. However, the aspirations were quickly crumbled as the mighty Aussies asserted their ascendancy with the bowl. Scott Boland bestowed Australia with the early breakthrough by getting rid of Kohli and Jadeja in the same over. Kohli was caught by Steven Smith on the slip while Jadeja was caught-behind by the wicketkeeper Alex Carrey.
Despite a 33 run partnership between Rahane and KS Bharat, Australia’s bowling remain relentless, as Rahane fell to Mitchell Starc in the 57th over.
Followed by Rahane’s departure Shardul Thakur who played remarkable in the first innings, failed to open his account this time, as he was ousted by Nathan Lyon in the following over. Umesh Yadav, Mohammad Siraj both were dismissed in a rapid succession sealing Australia’s triumph against India.
Nathan Lyon and Scott Boland were the standout bowlers for Australia, their commendable bowling facilitated Australia to win the ICC World Test Championship Finals.
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