The Indian cricket team is gearing up for the final match of the India vs New Zealand World Test Championship (WTC) Final by playing intra-squad matches. The much-awaited clash between the two heavyweights will start from June 18 at England's Southampton.
On the opening day of the practice match, wicket-keeper batsman Rishabh Pant and Shubman Gill played big innings and now after these two players, on day 3 of the intra-squad match, team India's star all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja played a brilliant innings of 54 runs, showing his abilities with the bat. Jadeja's fiery innings will surely increase the tension of New Zealand ahead of the WTC Final!
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The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has shared a video of Jadeja's batting on Twitter. The veteran faced 76 balls to score 54 runs in this match. During this, fast bowler Mohammad Siraj bowled brilliantly as he took two wickets for 22 runs.
Batsmen dominate bowlers in the intra-squad match!
In this intra-squad match, most of the batsmen have managed to dominate the bowlers so far. On the first day of the match, wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant played an unbeaten innings of 121 runs off just 94 balls. Apart from him, young opener Shubman Gill scored 85 runs off 135 balls. In the bowling department, Ishant Sharma took three wickets for 36 runs while bowling with excellent line and length.
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The WTC final match between India and New Zealand is to be played from June 18 to 22 at the Ageas Bowl. If cricket pundits are to be believed, then the Kiwi team can get the benefit of the two-match Test series against England in the WTC final.