WTC Final 2023: Indian Cricket Team – India will be without their strongest playing XI for the Word Test Championship (WTC) Final against Australia. The summit clash will take place from June 7 to 11, and the Rohit Sharma-led India will have to make do without these star players as they are ruled out due to injuries. The BCCI selection panel have announced India’s Test squad for the WTC final. The board has named replacement for the injured players like Jasprit Bumrah, Shreyas Iyer, and Rishabh Pant. Follow WTC Final live Updates with InsideSport.IN.
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Bumrah successfully underwent surgery on his back and has begun his rehabilitation at NCA. Iyer will undergo surgery back surgery in London and is almost certain to be ruled out for two to three months. While Pant is out of action due to a horrific car crash.
The southpaw will require at least six to seven months to return to competitive cricket. KL Rahul, Jaydev Unadkat, Umesh Yadav and Shardul Thakur are also doubtful for WTC Final owing to injuries.
WTC Final: India Squad WTC Final who has replaced Bumrah, Iyer and Pant?
- Umesh Yadav and Shardul Thakur are named in WTC final squad as replacements for Bumrah. With Siraj and Shami as first-choice pacers, There will be a toss-up for the third pacer between Thakur and Umesh.
- As for Pant, KS Bharat replaced him as a wicketkeeper batter during the Australia Test series. However, Bharat was mediocre behind the stumps and failed to score a single fifty in four Tests.
- Bharat though has retained his place in the WTC Squad as wicketkeeper batter.
- KL Rahul is likely to be ruled out of the WTC owing to hamstring injury.
- Unadkat has suffered a shoulder injury, and Thakur and Umesh Yadav have niggle in hamstring.
- BCCI have named five standby players in WTC squad and if either of Umesh, Rahul, Thakur and Unadkat are ruled of the IND vs AUS clash, the standby players can come in the main squad
- Ajinkya Rahane has replaced SuryaKumar Yadav in the Test squad.
WTC Final: Injury concerns for Australia as well Lance Morris ruled out of WTC, IPL to decide Hazlewood’s fitness
Australia also have few injury concerns as Lance Morris is ruled out of the WTC and Ashes due to a back injury. Meanwhile, Josh Hazlewood’s IPL form will decide if he is fully fit. The RCB pacer is returning after a long layoff due to Achilles heel trouble. If the tall pacer plays six or seven games for RCB, Hazlewood will likely play WTC and Ashes.
“He’s having a bit of a de-load period, which I think is about four-to-six weeks, and then he will start to start to build after that,” chief selector George Bailey said. “Conservatively, we’ll probably look to rebuild Lance and hopefully have a really big crack at the summer.
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