WTC Final Day 5: Four days of the WTC Final being played between India and Australia have been completed. Now on the fifth day very interesting game will be seen. The Indian team is chasing 444 runs. Team India has scored 164 runs for 3 wickets by the end of the fourth day. Now the team needs 280 runs to win on the last day. At the same time, Australia needs 7 wickets to win the title.
By the end of the fourth day’s play, Virat Kohli returned with a personal score of 44 and Ajinkya Rahane 20 runs. Team India has lost the wickets of Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara and captain Rohit Sharma while chasing 444 runs on the fourth day. Now the team has only 7 wickets in hand. On the other hand, the pitch was also not helping the bowlers much on the fourth day. In such a situation, Team India can bring home the ICC trophy by making this match.
India won the toss and decided to field
The Indian team had elected to field first after winning the toss in the match. Australia had put 469 runs on the board while batting in the first innings, in response to which Team India was all out for 296 runs in their first innings.
After this, Australia declared the innings by scoring 270 runs for 8 wickets in their second innings. In this way, Team India got the target of 444 runs to win. Team India had scored 164 runs while batting on the fourth day. Now the team needs 280 runs to win.
Big Indian batsmen failed in the first innings
Significantly, Team India could only score 296 runs in the first innings. Most of the big batsmen appeared unsuccessful from the team. It included Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara and Virat Kohli. All the four batsmen had scored 15, 13, 14 and 14 runs respectively. Whereas Rahane (89) and Shardul Thakur (51) played brilliant half-century innings.
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