An attest to their bench strength, team India is likely to place a formidable challenge to the Australian side tomorrow despite the absence of some of their regular players namely Rishabh Pant, Jasprit Bumrah, Shreyas Iyer, and KL Rahul.
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The grand finale of the second edition of World Test Championship will take place at the Kennington Oval in London, and Rohit Sharma‘s men will yet again hit the ground with an aim to not only be crowned the world Test champions, but also end their decade-long ICC title drought.
While it were the Kiwis who had acted as their last prickly thorn during the inaugural WTC final two years ago, it will be the Aussies who would like to see their disappointing faces this time around.
The Pat Cummins-led side, however, was also handed with a late injury blow a few days ago. One of their lead pacers Josh Hazlewood has been ruled out due to left Achilles injury and a side strain. The development has resulted in pacer Scott Boland pinning down Hazlewood’s replacement in Michael Neser to be part of the team’s Playing XI.
WTC Final 2023 Commentators
Star Sports Network is the official broadcaster of the World Test Championship Final 2023. As always, they have made sure to bring in some of the biggest former cricketers under a roof to call the live proceedings of the high-octane clash.
The viewers will have the option to follow the match commentary in a total of five different languages in English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, and Kannada.
English – Ricky Ponting, Matthew Hayden, Justin Langer, Alison Mitchell, Harsha Bhogle, Sunil Gavaskar, Ravi Shastri, Dinesh Karthik, Nasser Hussain, and Kumar Sangakkara.
Hindi – Sourav Ganguly, Harbhajan Singh, S Sreesanth, Jatin Sapru, and Deep Dasgupta.
Tamil – Yo Mahesh, Sadagopan Ramesh, Laxmipathy Balaji, Sridharan Sriram, and Pradeep Muthu.
Telugu – Kaushik NC, Ashish Reddy, Tirumalasetti Suman and Kalyan Krishna.
Kannada – Vijay Bharadwaj, Srinivasa M, Bharat Chipli, Pavan Deshpande, and Sunil Joshi.
