Team India begins practice at The Oval ahead of WTC final against Australia

Ahead of the World Test Championship final against Australia, the Indian Test team began their practice session at The Oval on Sunday. India will play Australia in the much-anticipated WTC final from June 7 to 11 at The Oval. The BCCI shared a picture of the team hitting the ground running at the iconic venue. “Hello from The Oval,” it said in a tweet.

The BCCI, on its official Twitter handle on May 25, had said that members of the Indian team such as Akshar Patel, Umesh Yadav and Shardul Thakur along with head coach Rahul Dravid and other support staff members have resumed practice at the picturesque Arundel Castle Cricket Club in Arundel town. Have given. , On May 29, it shared pictures of charismatic batsmen Virat Kohli, Cheteshwar Pujara, Jaydev Unadkat, Mohammed Siraj and Ravichandran Ashwin engaged in practice and interaction with support staff members at Arundel.

Hello _ from Oval.#WTC23 #TeamIndia pic.twitter.com/FsDL6tm2aI

– BCCI (@BCCI) June 4, 2023

Captain Rohit Sharma, Ishan Kishan and reserve player Mumbai young opener Yashasvi Jaiswal attended the practice session on 30 May. After playing in the IPL final in Ahmedabad on June 1, Mohammed Shami will join practice on June 2.

India, then led by Kohli, finished as runners-up in the inaugural WTC cycle after losing the title clash to Kane Williamson’s New Zealand by eight wickets at the Rose Bowl in Southampton in 2021.

With Rohit set to captain the Test team on overseas soil for the first time, India will aim to go a step further by way of their second straight WTC final appearance against Australia at The Oval, which will host a Test match in June. first time.

The final will mark the end of the second edition of the WTC, which was introduced in 2019 to add context to matches in the longest format of the game. The winners of the WTC Finals will receive a purse of $1.6 million while the losers will receive $800,000.

Indian Team: Rohit Sharma (Captain), Ravichandran Ashwin, KS Bharat, Shubman Gill, Ravindra Jadeja, Virat Kohli, Ishan Kishan, Cheteshwar Pujara, Axar Patel, Ajinkya Rahane, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj, Shardul Thakur, Jaydev Unadkat, Umesh Yadav .

Reserve: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Mukesh Kumar, Suryakumar Yadav