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WTC final, Standby players, Ruturaj Gaikwad: The final match of the World Test Championship is to be played between India and Australia. This match will be played between June 7 and 11 at the Kensington Oval ground in England, while a reserve day has also been kept on June 12. Both the teams had already been announced for this match. However, now BCCI has announced the replacement of KL Rahul. Wicket-keeper batsman Ishan Kishan has been included in the squad in his place. Apart from this, three players have got place as standby. These include Rituraj Gaikwad, Suryakumar Yadav and Mukesh Kumar.
Rituraj in excellent form
Chennai Super Kings opener Rituraj Gaikwad has had a great performance this season. He has scored 384 runs in 10 innings of 11 matches at an average of 42.67 and a strike rate of 148.26. He is continuously giving good starts to Chennai. Ritu has not played a single Test match in his career so far. On the other hand, Mumbai Indians’ middle order batsman Suryakumar Yadav has been rewarded for his brilliant performance in the IPL. His bat remained silent in the initial few matches, but now he has returned to form.
Surya’s bat running
Surya (Suryakumar Yadav) has so far scored 293 runs in 10 innings of 10 matches at an average of 29.30 and a strike rate of 175.45. He has also played many important innings for Mumbai recently. Sky has played 1 test match in his career and scored 8 runs. On the other hand, talk about Delhi’s fast bowler Mukesh Kumar, he has taken 6 wickets in 8 matches of this IPL season.
India team for WTC final
Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, KS Bharat (wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Akshar Patel, Shardul Thakur, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj, Umesh Yadav, Jaydev Unadkat, Ishan Kishan (wicket keeper).
Standby Player: Rituraj Gaikwad, Mukesh Kumar, Suryakumar Yadav.
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