Australia dominated Day 1 of the World Test Championship Final to place India beneath huge stress at The Oval on Wednesday, June 7. Indian staff skipper Rohit Sharma gained the essential toss and elected to bowl first within the summit conflict. Indian pacers initially justified Rohit’s resolution to bowl first with three huge wickets however Travis Head and Steve Smith dominated the remainder of Day 1 to assist Australia rating 327/3 in simply 85 overs.
Rohit’s resolution to drop the world no.1 Test bowler Ravichandran Ashwin because of the taking part in situations has not gone nicely with Indian cricket followers and the previous captains. During the lunch break, Sourav Ganguly revealed that he would have discovered it very robust if he was captaining the WTC closing match. He added that Rohit’s resolution to play with 4 tempo choices has labored prior to now but it surely’s unimaginable for him to maintain a spinner of Ashwin’s high quality out.
“See it’s an afterthought. And I don’t believe in afterthoughts. As a captain, you take a decision before the toss and India had decided that they would go in with 4 fast bowlers. Having said that, in the last couple of years, they have had success in the last couple of years with 4 pacers. They’ve won Test matches but if you ask me… if I was captaining – and every captain is different – Rohit and I think differently. I would find it very hard to keep a spinner out of Ashwin’s quality out of the XI,” Sourav Ganguly mentioned on Star Sports through the lunch break.
The legendary Sunil Gavaskar additionally questioned Rohit’s resolution based mostly on taking part in situations and mentioned that India missed the trick by not taking part in Ashwin. He mentioned that he would have picked Ashwin forward of Umesh Yadav and added that the latter appeared out of kind on Day 1.
“India missed a trick by not playing Ravi Ashwin. He’s the No. 1 Ranked bowler. You don’t look at the pitch for players like him. You are playing a World Test Championships final, and you don’t pick the number one bowler in Test cricket. This decision from Team India is beyond my understanding. I would have picked him in place of Umesh Yadav, who was out of action and looks out of rhythm,” Gavaskar mentioned.
