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India are one final away from winning a World Cup since 2011.
Will India beat Australia or will Australia beat India and become the only team to win World Cups in all three forms of cricket? The answer to that will be known in the match that starts tomorrow at the London Oval.
The absence of Jasprit Bumrah, Rishabh Pant and KL Rahul in the Indian team that has gone to England to play Test cricket this time is a setback. But overall there are many positive aspects in the kit bag of the entire Indian team that has gone to England.
Starting late last year till now, the batting form of youngster Subman Gill has been rising like a kite flying in the direction of the wind. They started talking about him as the next Virat Kohli and now
“Virat Kohli’s batting has weakness; Gill doesn’t have batting weakness like Sachin!” Situations have changed so much that Mohammad Kaif says.
Both Pujara and Rahane have been dropped from Sri Lanka’s 2021 tour of India due to poor batting. In this, Pujara skipped the IPL series to play for English county team Sussex and played well and returned to the Indian Test team for the remaining one Test match of the 2021 Test series against England. He finally ended his century drought last year with a century against Bangladesh.
Rahane, on the other hand, has not moved like Pujara in the IPL series and has regained his batting form by participating in the Ranji matches for Mumbai State and has returned to the Indian Test team in place of Shreyas Iyer.
Virat Kohli’s comeback century against Afghanistan in the 20-over Asia Cup series held in the middle of last year is the only one-day Test cricket century that has come in this year’s IPL series as well. The sword of the king of modern cricket has been sharpened and started to shine again.
If you take Rohit Sharma in the top order, he is in a different position with the bat. His batting form is all about his batting approach. Otherwise there seems to be no problem with his batting technique.
England Test tour 2021 saw both Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul break through England’s swing bowling attack in a brilliant batting approach.
They blocked or hit only the balls that were in the eye line with the bat. This too they came on the front foot and then played to suit the ball. They had the same level of attention and approach to every ball they encountered. This is a batting penance.
Centuries eventually came for KL Rahul at Lord’s and Rohit Sharma at Kennington Oval. What Rohit Sharma needs now is a batting approach and not a change in batting technique!
In this way, the batting unit of the Indian team is better now than in the past few years.
The truth is that when Pujara, Virat Kohli and Rahane are getting runs from the bat, the absence of Rishabh Pant in the batting unit is not a big problem.
As far as the bowling unit of the Indian team is concerned, Mohammad Shami, Mohammad Siraj, Umesh Yadav, Jayadev Unathkat, Shardul Thakur, Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja and Axar Patel are world class. If India wins the title, they will be fighting at the forefront!
While Warner’s batting form may have faded when he took on Australia, Usman Khawaja, inspired by the last Ashes series, is dangerous for any team in any country.
After this, the world’s No.1 and No.2 Test batsmen Marnes Labuzanne and Steve Smith will be waiting to see how they can punish the opposition bowlers.
Next to them fearless Travis Head leads the second part of the batting unit!
Along with them, Alex Carey and Cameron Green stand quietly as they can not only bring action but also big runs for the team in the last phase. In the bottom row, captain Pat Cummins and Mitchell Starc, who can keep the ball and cap in the kit bag, join hands.
If you look at Australia’s bowling unit Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins, Scott Boland, Michael Nacer, Nathan Lyon, Todd Murphy is a precision attack alliance!
“You told me the weather has been dry at the Oval so far. If the weather stays like this the Oval will look like Australia!” Australia legend Craig Chappell says the situation will favor Virat Kohli, who has been superb in Australia against Australia.
So will this situation not favor the Australian team? Through the question, the Indian team has won the Border Gavaskar Test series in Australia twice!
It is impossible to say that they are the frontrunners in this final, and at the end of the analysis, the advantages are close to balance for both teams. This is why these two are in the finals.
How fast do we adapt to a changing situation? How many days have we spent in that particular place? What is the fitness level of the players? To what extent is player workload management managed? That is the difference between the two teams now. This is where the Australian team stands slightly ahead of the Indian team.
But the reality is that anything can happen in cricket, which is a series of psychological changes. Will Indian team win the trophy? Let’s wait and see.
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