The condition of Team India in the final of the World Test Championship 2023 (WTC) is very bad. By the end of the third day’s play, Australia is leading with 296 runs. Australia has strengthened its grip on the match with this lead. However, Team India is still not out of the game and if it can create pressure at the start of the fourth day’s play, then it can return home as a champion. Know what Rohit Sharma Brigade will have to do and what are the possibilities for Team India.
6 wickets will have to be taken between 50 and 70 runs
By the end of the third day’s play in the World Test Championship 2023, Australia’s 4 players have returned to the pavilion and the lead is 296 runs. If India wants to stay in the game, then Siraj, Shardul Thakur, Ravindra Jadeja and Mohammed Shami will have to take the remaining 6 wickets together. If 2-3 wickets fall in the opening over itself, the Australian innings will be shattered and the lead can be allowed to remain within 350. For this, bowling should be done with an attacking mentality from both ends and pressure has to be maintained from the beginning. It is not impossible to do this on the fourth day of Test cricket.
Virat Kohli will have to fulfill a big responsibility
India currently has the best chase master in the world, Virat Kohli. Apart from this, Shubman Gill is running in excellent form. If the bowlers manage to do their job and the lead remains between 350 and 370, India can still make a comeback. Virat Kohli and Shubman Gill will have to do their best here and maintain the pace of runs along with keeping the wickets. In the middle order, there are Cheteshwar Pujara and Ajinkya Rahane who have experience of playing with patience and technique in such conditions. Rahane has also done the work of saving India’s honor in the first innings.
Team India will have to repeat the history of attacking mentality in Gaba
Team India needs to play with an aggressive mindset, not a miracle. The history that was created in Gaba in 2021 needs to be repeated. Australia scored 369 in the first innings in that match and Team India, playing without senior players, was 186 for 6. The defeat was imminent but the match was overturned and history was made. Veterans like Pat Cummins and Mitchell Starc were chewed by India’s Shardul Thakur and Washington Sundar. There was a century partnership between the two. In the second innings, 324 runs were to be scored in 98 overs and Cheteshwar Pujara stood like a wall after getting hurt at one end and Rishabh Pant batted in T20 style from the other end. After Pujara, wickets kept falling from the other end but in the last, Pant created history by hitting a winning four.
