IND vs AUS: Ahead of the World Test Championship final between India and Australia, pitch curator of The Oval, Lee Fortis, has said the pitch for the final will be a bouncy one. Traditionally, the Oval pitch offers true bounce and is generally great for batters, but the first images of the pitch showed an excessive amount of grass on it, which created speculation regarding the nature of the pitch.
“It will be a good Oval pitch. It will be bouncy that is one thing. It will be bouncy. Let us hope so (there is no rain). English summer for a change,” Fortis told India spinner R Ashwin on the latter’s Youtube channel.
Ashwin is someone who has played County cricket at The Oval, the home of Surrey. Out of the 14 Tests India have played at the venue, they have lost five, drawn seven and won only two.
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India are contemplating whether to play both Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja or a fourth pace-bowling option in the high-stake game.
Ahead of the final, India captain Rohit Sharma said his team is not focusing too much on the unusual scheduling of the game.
“We’ve been hearing, not much of cricket is played here in June. County season has been played here. We saw there was a game played a couple of weeks back here. It’s not like it’s the first game of the season happening on this ground. We are quite aware of what the conditions are, what is going to happen in the next five days,” said Rohit.
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