WTC 2023 Final: India’s Legendary cricketer Sunil Gavaskar has pointed that batter Cheteshwar Pujara will be essential to supply invaluable inputs to the Indian group for the World Test Championship Final in opposition to Australia. India will lock horns in opposition to Australia in their second Test championship ultimate at The Oval from June 7 onwards. The Men in Blue look to clinch their first Test mace after ending as runners-up in the 2021 version.
Notably, Sunil Gavaskar is of the view that Cheteshwar Pujara’s inputs will be invaluable to the Indian group in each batting in addition to in the captaincy. Among the Indian squad gamers for the Championship, solely Pujara was in England, taking part in county cricket and getting some Test expertise below his belt. He was additionally the captain of the Sussex group that featured Australia’s trendy nice Steve Smith.
“The fact that he is been around (in England) will mean that he will have also seen how the pitch has been behaving at The Oval. He might not have played at The Oval, and he might be in Sussex not too far away from London but he will have kept an eye on what is happening and his inputs will be invaluable as far as the batting unit is concerned or even as far as the captaincy is concerned,” Gavaskar advised Star Sports.
He additionally acknowledged that India’s trendy wall in Test cricket may be having methods chalked out for Smith. “He will have the captains here as far as the Oval pitch is concerned and don’t forget he has also been captaining the team, so he definitely will have worked out quite a few strategies seeing that Steve Smith, the Australian is his teammate at the moment,” Gavaskar added.
The 73-year-old Gavaskar additionally acknowledged that the Indian batter will need to make changes to their batting after taking part in a high-octane T20 cricket. “I think they are going to look at their bat speed. Coming from T20 where the bat speed is very fast to Test cricket where the bat speeds got to be a lot more control, that is something they’ll need to do,” he stated.
“They’ll need to play in England as late as possible to allow for the swing to do its bit, not to reach out for the ball which often a lot of people make the mistake having played on good pitches,” the 1983 World Cup winner added. Gavaskar additionally had recommendation for the bowling group and acknowledged that they need to bowl a bit fuller with the brand new ball and get motion in the air.
