On Day 5 of the India vs. Australia fourth Test in Ahmedabad, New Zealand defeated Sri Lanka in a nail-biting last-ball thriller during lunchtime. The outcome had a surprising impact. Regardless of the outcome in Ahmedabad, it eliminated Sri Lanka from contention and advanced India to the World Test Championship championship game. After the final Test ended in a draw, India won the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2-1. It didn\u2019t take long for the attention to turn to the World Tennis Championship final, which will be played on June 7 against Australia at the Oval in England.<\/p>\n
KS Bharat\u2019s performance with the bat fell short of expectations, and his fielding in front of a turning ball also lacked assurance. The pitch in the WTC final is not likely to favor spinners, but this will shift attention back to Bharat\u2019s batting.<\/p>\n
Due solely to his batting prowess, veteran Indian cricketer Sunil Gavaskar thinks KL Rahul should be selected as the WTC final\u2019s keeper-batter.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can see KL Rahul as a wicketkeeper. If he bats at No.5 or 6 in at the Oval (in the WTC final) then our batting will be stronger. Because he batted really well in England last year. He scored a century at the Lord\u2019s. Keep KL Rahul in mind when you pick your XI for the WTC final,\u201d Gavaskar told Sports Tak.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Day 5 of the India vs. Australia fourth Test in Ahmedabad, New Zealand defeated Sri Lanka in a nail-biting\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":28726,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[608,3343,246],"class_list":["post-5790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-kl-rahul","tag-ks-bharat","tag-sunil-gavaskar"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5790","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\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}