IND vs NZ| Test Match, ICC World Test Championship| 18-06-2021 15:30 IST

Schedule

Match : India Vs New Zealand

Series : ICC World Test Campionship, 2021

Date :  18-06-2021, 7:30 PM IST

Venue : The Rose Bowl, Southampton

Last Hour Update : 

Last hour update will be available 15 minutes before start of the play.

Last 5 Head to Head Clashes :

• New Zealand won by 7 wickets
• New Zealand won by 10 wickets
• India won by 321 runs
• India won by 178 runs
• India won by 197 runs

Match Analysis :

This is the first final of World Test Championship. Yes you heard it right, finally we have the finals of the World Test Championship. The two teams which is going to play this final is India and New Zealand. This championship kicked off on 1^st August, 2019 with the Ashes Test at Edgbaston, Birmingham. Earlier the finals was supposed to played at the Lord’s but due Covid-19 issue match was shifted to Southampton and played between June 18-22.

India is all set with their preparations as Virat and Company will be taking this encounter as a damage repair to the 2019 World Cup semi final revenge.

Whereas, New Zealand high on confidence as they came into this final after a historic series win over England. They have the advantage that they are in English condition for a long time which will help them a lot during this final.

Top run scorer from both the teams during WTC :

Ajinkya Rahane: 1,095 runs

Kane Williamson: 817 runs

Top wickets taker from both the team during WTC :

Ravichandran Ashwin: 67 wickets

Tim Southee: 51 wickets

Expected 11 : 

India : Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, Rishabh Pant, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah, Ishant Sharma

New Zealand : Tom Latham, Devon Conway, Kane Williamson (c), Ross Taylor, Henry Nicholls, BJ Watling (wk), Colin de Grandhomme/T Boult, Ajaj Patel, Kyle Jamieson, Tim Southee, Neil Wagner

Top pick for Captain/ Vice Captain  : 

Captain - Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli

Vice Captain - Ravindra Jadeja, Tom Latham

Squad :

India : Virat Kohli (c), Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Rishabh Pant, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Mohammad Shami, Jasprit Bumrah, Ishant Sharma, Mohammed Siraj, Hanuma Vihari, Wriddhiman Saha, Umesh Yadav

New Zealand : Kane Williamson (C), Tom Blundell, Trent Boult, Devon Conway, Colin de Grandhomme, Matt Henry, Kyle Jamieson, Tom Latham, Henry Nicholls, Ajaz Patel, Tim Southee, Ross Taylor, Neil Wagner BJ Watling and Will Young.

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