IND vs AUS Live Score, WTC Final 2023: Travis Head (146), Steve ...

IND vs AUS WTC Final 2023 Live Cricket Score: Thanks to a century from Travis Head, Australia had the upper hand in the WTC final after Day 1 at the the Kennington Oval.

India vs Australia Live Score, WTC Final 2023: Travis Head scored a century while Steve Smith inched closer to his own ton as Australia remained in control against India at the end of Day 1. Head and Smith kept Australia ticking, posting 327/3 at stumps after India had struck an early blow after lunch when Mohammed Shami snapped up Marnus Labuschagne.

Earlier, Australia had scored 73/2 at lunch at the Oval on Wednesday. India took out the on-song David Warner at 43 right before the break while Usman Khawaja fell for a duck courtesy of Shardul Thakur and Mohammed Siraj respectively. This was after Rohit Sharma and Co have left out the world’s top-ranked Test bowler, Ravichandran Ashwin, and have decided to bowl first in the World Test Championship Final against Australia.

India and Australia are competing for the greatest prize in Test cricket as they face off in the second World Test Championship Final. The five-day one-off Test match has a reserve day in place in case rain intervenes the match just like it did the last time when India played New Zealand in 2021 at Southampton.

WTC 2023 Final IND vs AUS Match Live Score Updates: Here are the two squads

Australia: David Warner, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Steven Smith, Travis Head, Cameron Green, Alex Carey(w), Pat Cummins(c), Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Scott Boland, Josh Inglis, Todd Murphy, Michael Neser, Marcus Harris

India: Rohit Sharma(c), Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, Srikar Bharat(w), Ishan Kishan, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Shardul Thakur, Mohammed Shami, Umesh Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, Jaydev Unadkat

Who will win the Test Mace at WTC? Australia more balanced, India start on the backfoot

Sunshine gleamed from every footage from Arundel and Beckenham, the training base for India and Australia for the World Test Championship at Oval, which again, as the photographs captured, glistened in a pre-summer glow. But England summers are different from those of India and Australia. The sun never bakes like in India; it does not scorch like in Australia. Some of India’s batsmen wore windbreakers and floppy hats, some of the less acclimatized Australians wore skull caps and jackets for a swing at the Formby Golf Club.

The weather is but just one of the factors both teams would have to adjust before the Oval showdown to crown the new monarchs of Test cricket. after a rushed and sweaty build-up with no form book, no tour games, no trash talk, or no grand swooping narrative arcs to be completed. There is the whimsy mood of the wine-red, hand-stitched Dukes’ ball to be mastered; there is an unknown pitch to be conquered—no Test has ever been played at the Oval in early June; Test-match habits and tempo have to be reacquainted with after an Indian summer of IPL.  (READ SANDIP G's PREVIEW OF THE FINAL)

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First published on: 07-06-2023 at 12:17 IST