Sunil Gavaskar named India’s playing XI for the WTC final.

Indian cricket veteran Sunil Gavaskar recently picked the players who, in his opinion, will be the best among the 15 players selected for the ICC World Test Championship final (2021-23), which is going to happen at the Oval, England. Team India is already short of players like Rishabh Pant, KL Rahul, and Jasprit Bumrah, as three of them are recovering from injuries. Though the players selected for the WTC final are equally good, India is still lacking a perfect wicketkeeper batter who could play like Rishabh Pant in the middle order. K S Bharat has played some test matches for India, but his performance with the bat was not impressive. Ishan Kishan is another option who came in as a replacement for KL Rahul, who got a hamstring injury while playing in the IPL.

India has again reached the final of the World Test Championship. Earlier in ICC WTC 2021, they faced New Zealand but unfortunately couldn’t lift the mace that time, but this year is the chance for Rohit Sharma and Co. to remove the ICC trophy drought and lift the mace as a champion this time. Sunil Gavaskar, while naming the players, wants to have picked KS Bharat over Ishan Kishan as the former has played some test matches before. Gavaskar’s XI line-up is like:

“I will talk about the batting and that will be Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill as one-two. No. 3 is (Cheteshwar) Pujara, No. 4 is (Virat) Kohli, No. 5 is Ajinkya Rahane. No. 6 is where there is just a little bit of a concern,”

“I would imagine No. 6 would be either (Srikar) Bharat or Ishan Kishan. They are talking about Bharat because he has played all these matches so far. So will probably stick with Bharat at six,”

“No. 7 will be (Ravindra) Jadeja. If it’s a bright day and a bright prediction, then I think you are looking at Jadeja and (Ravichandran) Ashwin at No. 7 and No. 8. No. 9, 10 and 11 will be Mohammad Shami, Mohammed Siraj and maybe Shardul Thakur,”

Sunil Gavaskar told Star Sports