Australia won maiden world test championship by humiliating India

 

Australian cricket team won maiden world test championship humbling India by huge margin of 209 runs. All hopes were pinned on Virat Kohli to clinch maiden victory in World test championship but he remained unsuccessful.

India won the toss at Oval and decided to bowl first. Australia piled up 469 runs  in Ist innings Travis Head 163 and  SteveSmith 121 were top scorers of Ist innings.

India scored 296 runs Ajinka Rahane 89 ans Rvendra Jadeja 48 were top scorers in Indian Ist innings. 

 Aus declared 2nd innings at 234/8 and set 444 runs huge total for India to win WTC. 

In second innings Indian batsmen couldn't stay on wicket while chasing 444 runs huge and all bowled out at 236 runs with Virat Kohli 49 the top scorer.

Travis Head (163) was the highest scorer from Aus side and grabbed man of the match award.

It is important to note that New Zealand won the Ist ever test champion by beating India. Twice India reached final of World Test Championship and never won the final.

Indian big guns under scathing critisim 

Former Indian captain Sunil Gavaskar lashed out at top Indian batters for their poor shot selection including Virat Kohli's shot selection chasing a wide ball, who fell 49, while chasing a huge score of 444.

"To the match you needed a long innings, a century plus innings but how are you going to do that if you play a shot so far outside the off stump".

Indian media over defeat in WTC

Indian Express lamented the team efforts by recalling 2021 WTC defeat and how they were sleepwalking into same problems.

" It seemed like a rerun of an old movie or a copycat with minor tweaks in the script,  or hastily cobbled up sequel with same arcs but different settings, it said.

Times of India headline read as"sustained failures on big occasions".

Is it time for a transition and a phasing out of some senior batters as next WTC cycle begins for India from the West Indies tour in July and August ".