POBNEWS24 Dhaka, June 11, 2023 : Australia won the World Test Championship title. Pat Cummins’ team defeated India by a huge margin of 209 runs on the fifth and final day of the final at the Oval in England. Chasing the target of 444 runs given by Australia, India was bowled out for 234 runs.
Team India would have won the world record if they won the match.
Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane gave glimpses of excitement in the late afternoon batting on the fourth day. But on the last day, India could not stand in front of Australia’s sloppy bowling. Australia won the World Test Championship with the brilliant bowling of Scott Boland, Nathan Lyon, Mitchell Starc.
Virat Kohli scored the highest run for India in the second innings.
He returned to Sajghar after playing an innings of 49 runs off 78 balls. Apart from this, Ajinkya Rahane scored 46, Rohit Sharma scored 43 and Chetshwar Pujara scored 27 runs.
It should be noted that Australia was all out for 469 runs in the first innings. After that, Ajira took the lead of 173 runs by wrapping up India for 296 runs.
As a result, in the second innings, when Australia announced the innings at 270 for 8 wickets, India’s target stood at 444. Travis Head scored 163 runs in the first innings and 18 runs in the second innings.
