England pace bowler Stuart Broad hopes that India beat Australia in the World Test Championship (WTC) final ahead of the Ashes series at The Oval from Wednesday, June 7 as well. Broad, however, has already been involved in a war of words with the Asussies after his comments surrounding the 2021-22 Ashes as well. Hoping that Cheteshwar Pujara and Virat Kohli score well to dent Australia’s chances, Broad said:

“I don’t want to upset any more Aussies! I would like it to be an old school, hard-fought Test match where India do really well, get Pujara booked in nicely, and then Kohli comes in and scores a great hundred.”

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However, the upcoming WTC final marks India’s consecutive appearance after their loss to New Zealand in the inaugural final two years ago. India finished second in the points table to set up a clash against Australia for the title as well.

Meanwhile, aiming to lead the team to multiple ICC titles, Rohit Sharma said during the pre-match press conference:

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“Test cricket is the ultimate format, most challenging format and it will mean everything for us to win it. I want to take this Indian team forward and win 1-2 ICC titles. Overall, if you look at the consistent cricket that we played, we displayed good cricket all around. It’s a very tough tournament. We’ve got to play consistent cricket throughout the couple of years to get here. You need all the departments to do well for you. And I thought our strength really has been all three departments.”