Team India will match Australia: India's 10th title match in WTC final ICC tournament, New Zealand's 5th final

Posted on 14th Jun 2021 by rohit kumar

Team India has to play the final of the ICC World Test Championship against New Zealand in Southampton from June 18. With this match, Team India will equal Australia in terms of playing the most 10 finals in the ICC tournament, while this will be the 5th ICC final of the New Zealand team.

 

West Indies, England, and Sri Lanka are jointly ranked third with teams playing 8-8 finals. A total of 53 finals have been played in the ICC tournament so far. The least South Africa has played in a single final.

 

West Indies equal chance by winning WTC final

If Team India wins the WTC final, then it will be their 5th win in the final of any ICC tournament. In this case, she will equalize the second-placed West Indies. By the way, Australia is on top in terms of most final wins. He has won the title match 7 out of 10 times.

 

Team India will create history as soon as they win the WTC final

This is ICC's first World Test Championship. In such a situation, if Team India wins this title, then it will become the first team in the world to win the first season of any two ICC tournaments. Earlier, Team India became the champion in the first season of the T20 World Cup which started in 2007. Then defeated Pakistan in the final.

 

Indian team has won ODI World Cup 2 times

The Indian team played the final 3 times in the ODI World Cup, becoming champion twice in 1983 and 2011. In 2003, he had to face defeat at the hands of Australia. Team India played the final of the T20 World Cup twice, winning once in 2007. In 2014, the team was defeated by Sri Lanka.

 

The Indian team played the Champions Trophy final four times, winning the title in 2013 by defeating England. Once in 2002, the final was canceled due to rain with Sri Lanka as joint winners. They were defeated by New Zealand in 2000 and Pakistan in 2017.

 

Team India has played 10 finals in 9 ICC tournaments

This will be the final of Team India's 10th ICC tournament, but only if we talk about the match, it will be the 11th final. In this sense, Team India also seems to be breaking the record of Australia. In fact, on 29 September 2002, the ICC Champions Trophy played between Team India and Sri Lanka in Colombo was washed away due to rain. In this match, Sri Lanka, batting first, won the toss and scored 244 for 5 wickets. Team India could only score 14 runs in 2 overs.

 

After this, the same final was played again the next day. In this match also Sri Lanka, batting first after winning the toss, scored 222 runs for 7 wickets. In reply, Team India could only score 38 runs in 8.4 overs losing 1 wicket when it rained again. After that, the match was canceled again. It was the final of the same tournament, but both the matches started afresh, so ICC counts them in 2 matches. In this sense, Team India has played the final 10 times in 9 ICC tournaments.

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