"Plus, you know, as a captain, you're a certainty in the XI so he opens the batting." If Steve Smith was captain of Australia, then maybe it's a different story, but since it's Pat Cummins and Rohit Sharma, Rohit wins it." "He's been around and he's captained sides for a long time. "I would give the captaincy to Rohit because he's much more experienced than Pat," Shastri said in a recent episode of the ICC Review. While weighing out his captaincy options, Shastri opted to go with Rohit Sharma instead of Pat Cummins. Notably, India have 13 players in their WTC final squad taking part in the IPL whereas Australia have only four.Īhead of the all-important final, former India head coach Ravi Shastri named his combined XI from both sides, in which he picked only four Indians. Questions have been raised over India’s preparation for the WTC final as most of the players are featuring in the ongoing IPL. India and Australia are due to lock horns with each other in the WTC final at the Oval in London from June 7 to 11. With the IPL 2023 season set to come to an end on May 28, the focus of cricket fans and experts will now shift towards the World Test Championship (WTC) final.
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