ICC World Test Championship 2019/21 Final - General Discussions

Which team will win Test Championship Final?

  • India

    Votes: 5 23.8%
  • New Zealand

    Votes: 16 76.2%

  • Total voters
    21
  • Poll closed .
2023 WC Final hopes....
Yes because the tournament will be held in India so most probably India will qualify for the Final. :)
 
The moment I see a post from you, my head goes, oh, how did @ahmedleo414 come up with a post like this. Then I rub my eyes again and realise it's Murtaza.
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After the WTC final Virat Kohli will become the only cricketer to play all four ICC events finals.

World Cup 2011 Final ✅
Champions Trophy 2013 Final ✅
T20 World Cup 2014 Final ✅
Champions Trophy 2017 Final ✅
ICC Test Championship Final ✅
Irrelevant statistic! Dunno why people have this fascination with their favourite player playing a certain number of games.

By this logic I can pull up records of Australians who have played in the ICC Super Series and state that they are the only players to have featured in such finals/ series. Or bring up the South Africans who won the inaugural ICC Knockout! (only happened once thereafter)
 
Irrelevant statistic! Dunno why people have this fascination with their favourite player playing a certain number of games.

By this logic I can pull up records of Australians who have played in the ICC Super Series and state that they are the only players to have featured in such finals/ series. Or bring up the South Africans who won the inaugural ICC Knockout! (only happened once thereafter)

Absolutely! I mean, does this stat even matter now that ICC is hosting a marquee event for 3 consecutive years (2021 WTC; 2021 World T20; 2022 World T20; 2023 ODI WC)? By the end of the 2023 ODI WC, an ICC event would have become meaningless and not worthy of stats branding.
 
Was reading an article on this recently, but I feel maybe BCCI missed a trick by not giving Jaydev Unadkat another chance at the test level, after his massively stellar Ranji season in 2019-20 where he picked up 67 wickets in Saurasthra's title run (and I hear most of his wickets were on docile non bowler friendly surfaces?). In the absence of Bhuvaneshwar Kumar, a good swing bowler and that too a left armer could've added good variety to the pace attack. England conditions are different from Australia and maybe an Unadkat could've been preferred over Shardul Thakur or Umesh Yadav. Most of our bowlers picked for the WTC final and the England tests are 'hit the deck' kinda bowlers. Unadkat could've given a nice dimension with his left arm and swing skills.
 
Was reading an article on this recently, but I feel maybe BCCI missed a trick by not giving Jaydev Unadkat another chance at the test level, after his massively stellar Ranji season in 2019-20 where he picked up 67 wickets in Saurasthra's title run (and I hear most of his wickets were on docile non bowler friendly surfaces?). In the absence of Bhuvaneshwar Kumar, a good swing bowler and that too a left armer could've added good variety to the pace attack. England conditions are different from Australia and maybe an Unadkat could've been preferred over Shardul Thakur or Umesh Yadav. Most of our bowlers picked for the WTC final and the England tests are 'hit the deck' kinda bowlers. Unadkat could've given a nice dimension with his left arm and swing skills.
As far as I know, Unadkat gets most of his wickets through cutters or the angle that he uses to bowl. And I don't quite think that it does make a sense to play a bowler who hasn't played Test Cricket for more than 10 years now. Ishant, Shami, Bumrah & 2 spinners should be a good combination for Southampton. And Shardul does swing the red ball quite effectively from what I've seen of him.
 

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