Oval | Travis Head's unbeaten 146 and Steven Smith's brilliant innings of 95 not out on the first day of the WTC final given severe blow to India's dreams of winning the World Test Championship. After winning the toss, India fielded four fast bowlers and the decision taken to keep Ravichandran Ashwin out of the team seems to be costing the Indian team dearly. Australia made a mammoth total of 327 runs at the loss of 3 wickets till the end of the first day's play, now only time will tell on which score Australia's innings will end. Although the Indian medium pacers gave Australia initial shocks and sent 3 wickets to pavilion on the score of 76, but Travis Head and Steven Smith put on an unbeaten 251 runs partnership for the fourth wicket and given advantage to Australia on the first...

Oval | India won the toss and elected to bowl against Australia in the WTC final match. India decided to play with four fast bowlers and Ravi Ashwin did not find a place in the playing XI. Australia has given a chance to fast bowler Scott Boland who will play Test match for the first time in England. AUSTRALIA TEAM:  DA Warner, UT Khawaja, M Labuschagne, SPD Smith, TM Head, C Green, AT Carey†, MA Starc, PJ Cummins*, NM Lyon, SM Boland INDIA TEAM: RG Sharma*, Shubman Gill, CA Pujara, V Kohli, AM Rahane, KS Bharat†, RA Jadeja, SN Thakur, UT Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj