{"id":5783,"date":"2023-03-13T12:38:58","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T07:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=288436"},"modified":"2023-03-13T12:54:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T07:24:58","slug":"india-qualify-for-the-world-test-championship-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/india-qualify-for-the-world-test-championship-final\/","title":{"rendered":"India qualify for the World Test Championship Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">After New Zealand\u2019s thrilling win over Sri Lanka in Christchurch on Sunday, India has secured their place in the World Test Championship 2021-23 final, where they will face Australia\u00a0<\/span><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">from June 7<\/span><\/strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0at The Oval in London.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The result means that India has become back-to-back WTC finalists, having reached the summit clash of the previous cycle, but lost to New Zealand. By the time India played the final Test of the process \u2013 against Australia in Ahmedabad \u2013 it was a two-horse race between them and Sri Lanka for the vacant spot in the big game.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Regarding the qualification scenario, Sri Lanka faced a challenge: they did not simply have to win their Tests in New Zealand and India to lose or draw in Ahmedabad. After solidly starting and dominating the first two days in Christchurch, the team suffered a devastating defeat by a rain-affected Day 5 and a last-ball failure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In 2023, India set its sights on reaching the World Test Championship final. As a result of their victories over Australia in Nagpur and Delhi, where the visitors could not contend with spin, they took significant steps towards their goal. However, in the absence of Pat Cummins, Steve Smith\u2019s Australia fought back in Indore and punished India for their incompetence at the batting crease.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Likewise, Sri Lanka began the fourth Test on shaky terms as Australia amassed an impressive first innings score, keeping them in the hunt. Only until rain shortened the final day in Christchurch that New Zealand chased down their target on the last ball, thus paving the way for India\u2019s qualification.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 20 long years, India and Australia will face off in the ICC men\u2019s cricket final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":316,"featured_media":28719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3546,1328],"class_list":["post-5783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-bcci","tag-world-test-championship"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}