WTC Final 2023: World Test Championship 2023, Australia vs India: India take on Australia in the final of the World Test Championship at the Oval. While India have not won an ICC trophy in 10 years, Australia will be keen to assert their Test supremacy under a new captain and a new Aussie way of playing cricket. India have another chance to break a 10-year-old jinx. They have not won an ICC event since 2013 and after lifting the Champions Trophy in England all those years ago, they made it to major global finals thrice. They failed in 2014 and then in 2017 and then in 2021. On every occasion, India strangely looked so much out of depth despite stellar runs before those finales.
Later on Wednesday, India will get yet another opportunity. The World Test Championship final between India and Australia is one of the most important cricket matches in recent history, yet it has weirdly not received the same hype as an IPL final. That is perhaps a reflection of these times of shorter formats domination or maybe it has something do with the fact that the WTC is a two-year cycle. No other sporting event in the world lasts that long!
WTC Final 2023: So arduous is the path to the title clash that you would be hard-pressed to remember how good India were in England in 2021 after a listless display in the final of the inaugural edition of the World Test Championship against New Zealand. India had a 2-1 lead over England before Covid-19 fears meant the decider of an enthralling series had to be suspended. The final Test was rescheduled last year and India, under a new captain and coach, lost it.
