ICC World Test Championship Final 2023: The final match of the World Test Championship is being played between India and Australia at the Kennington Oval in London. Today is the second day of the final match. The first day was named after the Australian team. But today Team India would like to make a comeback.
The first day of the final match was named after the Australian team. After the end of the first day’s play, the Kangaroos’ score is 327 for three wickets. At stumps, Travis Head returned unbeaten on 146 and Steve Smith on 95.
However, at one time India lost three wickets to Australia for just 76 runs. But then the Kangaroos made a strong comeback and did not lose any wickets for the whole day. During this, Travis Head did the attacking batting and Smith kept one end while playing with restraint.
The first session was in the name of India
Australia’s score in the first session was 73 runs at the loss of 2 wickets. Indian bowlers were continuously bowling on the exact line length and troubling the Australian batsmen. Siraj dismissed Usman Khawaja for zero and Shardul sent the set David Warner to the pavilion. With the start of the second session, the Australian team got the third blow in the form of Marnus Labushen, who became the victim of Mohammed Shami after playing an innings of 26 runs in 62 balls.
Travis Head scored a century, Australia’s name on the first day
After this, Travis Head, who came out to bat, started the process of scoring runs with Steve Smith. Where the head was batting aggressively against the Indian bowlers from one end. At the same time, Steve Smith was seen batting carefully from the other end.
Travis Head also completed his half-century during the game of the second season. When the game of the second session ended at tea time, the Australian team’s score had reached 170 runs at the loss of 3 wickets.
Everyone expected a better performance from the Indian bowlers in the last session of the first day. But the pair of Travis Head and Steve Smith did not give him any chance to come back at all. Both continued the process of scoring runs at a fast pace. Meanwhile, Head also completed the sixth century of his Test career. After which he also became the first player to play a century in the WTC final.
Steve Smith also scored runs while batting in a slightly aggressive manner in the last session of the day and also completed his half-century. At the end of the first day’s play, the Australian team had scored 327 runs at the loss of 3 wickets. Steve Smith was batting on 95 and Travis Head on 146. So far, there has been a partnership of 251 runs for the fourth wicket between the two.