Australia won the first WTC Title 2023 by winning the final match against India

In the final match of the World Test Championship (WTC) 2023, Australia won the match by 209 runs with India. After winning this final match, Australia won the first World Test Championship (WTC) 2023 title. In the year 2021, New Zealand won the first World Test Championship (WTC) by winning the final match against India.

Earlier, India won the toss and chose to bowl first thus Australia first batted and made a huge score of 469 runs in 10 wickets in the first inning due to great batting by Travis Head 163 (174), Steve Smith 121 (268), Alex Carey 48 (69), and David Warner 43 (60). Mohammad Siraj 4/108 (28.3), Shardul Thakir 2/83 (23), Mohammad Shami 2/122 (29), and Ravindra Jadeja 1/56 (18) were good bowling from the Indian side.

India was all out at only 296 runs in the first inning due to great bowling by Pat Cummins 3/83 (20), Cameroon Green 2/44 (12), Mitchell Starc 2/71 (13.4), Scott Boland 2/59 (20), and Nathan Lyon 01/19 (4). Ajinkya Rahane 89 (129), Shardul Thakur 51 (109), and Ravindra Jadeja 48 (51) were good batting from the Indian side. After this inning, Australia leads by 173 runs in the first inning against India.

In the second inning, Australia made the score and declared at 270/8 due to great batting by Alex Carey 66* (105), Mitchell Starc 41 (57), Marnus Labuschagne 41 (126), Steve Smith 34 (47), and Cameron Green 25 (95). Ravindra Jadeja 3/58 (23), Mohammad Shami 2/39 (16.3), Umesh Yadav 2/54 (17), and Mohammad Siraj 1/80 (20) were good bowling from the Indian side. After this inning, Australia set a target of 444 runs for India to win the final match of WTC 2023.

In the second inning, India was all out at only 234 runs and lose the final match by 209 runs with Australia due to great bowling by Nathan Lyon 4/41 (15.3), Scott Boland 3/46 (16), Mitchell Starc 2/77 (14), and Pat Cummins 1/55 (13). Virat Kohli 49 (78), Ajinkya Rahane 46 (108), Rohit Sharma 43 (60), and Cheteshwar Pujara 27 (47) were good batting from the Indian side.

Trevis Head (AUS), 163 (174), was declared as the Player of the Match due to his great performance in batting in the final match of WTC 2023.

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  1. haoyando's avatar haoyando says:

    Thank you for sharing. I am going to google WTC right now.

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