WTC Final 2023, India vs Australia: The final match of the second edition of the World Test Championship (WTC) is being played between India and Australia at the Kennington Oval ground in London. The game of the first 2 days of this match was entirely in the name of the Australian team. However, in the second day’s play, Indian fast bowler Mohammad Siraj definitely impressed everyone with his bowling. The Australian team was reduced to 469 runs in the first innings in which Siraj took a total of 4 wickets.
With the start of the second day’s play, Mohammad Siraj first took the wicket of Travis Head. Against whom short balls were used as a strategy. Mohammad Siraj said after the end of the second day’s play that our bowlers could have bowled in this match with a better line.
Siraj said in the press conference after the second day’s play that we had planned that we would use bouncer balls against Travis Head. We had thought that if he hits these balls then there is no problem in it. But we had to stick to our plan and that’s why we managed to get wickets.
In his statement, Mohammad Siraj further said that we had used bouncer balls against Travis Head on the first day as well and there were opportunities in that, but they all fell in the gap. Had even one of them been caught, the story might have been different today.
We should have bowled with a little better line on the first day
Mohammad Siraj also said about the bowling done by the Indian bowlers on the first day that this wicket was a bit sticky in the first session of the first day, but after that the wicket kept getting better. We should have improved our line length a bit.
At the end of the second day’s play, the Indian team had lost 5 wickets in their first innings at a score of 151 runs. Ajinkya Rahane was playing 29 and KS Bharat scored 5 runs. The danger of follow-on is still hanging over the Indian team.
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