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NEW ZEALAND QUALIFY FOR THE INAUGURAL ICC WORLD TEST CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL

The postponement of the Test series between South Africa and Australia means New Zealand have become the first team to qualify for the inaugural ICC World Test Championship final to be held in England from June 18 to 22, with June 23 as the reserve day.

New Zealand are currently ranked second on the ICC WTC table with a points percentage of 70 per cent, which has secured them a place in the final. They will be joined by either India, England, or Australia with the second spot being determined by the outcome of the India v England four-match Test series due to start on Friday.

To book their place, India will have to win the series against England by 2-1, 2-0, 3-1, 3-0 or 4-0, margin. For England to qualify and join New Zealand, they will have to win the series against India by 3-1, 3-0 or 4-0 margin. Australia can still qualify for the much-anticipated ICC WTC final if the series between India and England ends up as a drawn series, or if India win the series 1-0 or England win it by 1-0, 2-1 or a 2-1 margin.
 
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Australia Vs South Africa 3 match Test series has been postponed due to COVID19 situation in South Africa. New Zealand becomes the first team to reach the finals of World Test Championship.
 
New Zealand in February 2020 were at No.6 in the points table of World Test Championship and now in February 2021 they've became the first team to reach the finals of the World Test Championship.

:14::14:
 
Scenario for teams to join New Zealand in WTC Final:

India:
Beat England by 2-1, 2-0, 3-1, 3-0 or 4-0.

Australia:
India win series by 1-0.
England win series by 1-0.
England draw series by 2-2.
All 4 Tests between is draw.

England:
Beat India by 3-1, 3-0 or 4-0.
 
In World Test Championship,
Away record
Aus 2-2
NZ 1-4
Head to head Aus 3-0 NZ
Guess which team's playing the final?
NZ

:mw
 
The cancellation of Australia-South Africa means New Zealand are through to the World Test Championship final. Australia would have pipped them on head-to-head but for points docked for slow over rate
 
Looks very likely the WTC Final will be India vs NZ
 
Final will be India vs New Zealand.

This time though, the throw from Wagner's arm will hit Pandya's bat and go for four extra runs, thus helping India win the final vs NZ by one wicket and also win the world test championship 2019-21.
 
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New Zealand may earn their first world title if England don't cause any upsets. I don't see India winning against Boult, Southee, Wagner, Jamieson on a seaming deck.
 
2019 WC final bad luck evens out here. Let's see if NZ can pull out a special performance and win their first ever world test championship 2019-21.

It will be a solid contest IMO. NZ generally do well in England and India generally don't.
 
Forward Defensive Push said:
New Zealand may earn their first world title if England don't cause any upsets. I don't see India winning against Boult, Southee, Wagner, Jamieson on a seaming deck.
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What makes you think it will be a seaming deck? Pretty sure there will be pressure to have a more neutral deck
 
Indiafan said:
What makes you think it will be a seaming deck? Pretty sure there will be pressure to have a more neutral deck
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The conditions may not be completely seaming but will favor swing and seam bowling for sure. Think of 2019 world cup semifinal between the same countries.

Indian batting is good in India and Australia but I always feel they struggle on English and New Zealand tracks.
 
Will be a one sided.final
.NZ will demolish India in swinging conditions in England.
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Forward Defensive Push said:
The conditions may not be completely seaming but will favor swing and seam bowling for sure. Think of 2019 world cup semifinal between the same countries.

Indian batting is good in India and Australia but I always feel they struggle on English and New Zealand tracks.
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2019 Semi final was farce. India batted next day after rain, made batting even more difficult. NZ were extremely lucky

Even now they are in finals just winning series at home whereas India had to fight to win series in Aus. NZ is least deserving team in WTC finals and I hope if we reach there, smash the day light out of them.
 
CanadianG00se said:
2019 Semi final was farce. India batted next day after rain, made batting even more difficult. NZ were extremely lucky

Even now they are in finals just winning series at home whereas India had to fight to win series in Aus. NZ is least deserving team in WTC finals and I hope if we reach there, smash the day light out of them.
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India got a full series against Bangaldesh of all teams..only team so far to play full series against Bangaldesh in the current cycle . That alone gave a huge advantage to India and 120 free points to India on a platter.

NZ Whitewashed India at their home so they are not undeserving by any means.
 
Great news for both New Zealand and India.
We do not want to face aussies in a final.

We are winning this... Thats for sure.
 
Seems like it will be ind vs nz final

But would love to see eng vs nz final so nz can get their revange for world cup final haha
 
What would have been the scenario for teams to qualify if Aus vs SA series wouldn't have postponed?
 
Rafa said:
India got a full series against Bangaldesh of all teams..only team so far to play full series against Bangaldesh in the current cycle . That alone gave a huge advantage to India and 120 free points to India on a platter.

NZ Whitewashed India at their home so they are not undeserving by any means.
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Wrong.

Do you really thing we need any advantage to win at home. :yk
What difference does it make? Nz ban eng, aus all of them will get a thrashing when they visit India.

Facing weak teams away from home is definitely a much bigger advantage.
 
NZ has been lucky. Most of their wins were at home. And then get to play against maybe India in England, conditions that favor Southee, Boult, etc.

Just imagine if the final was in say Bangladesh or Sri Lanka, or dare I say India. NZ would be annihilated.
 
New Zealand should score more boundaries just to be on the safe side :P

Are they using the Dukes ball for this ?
 
HappyWarsFan said:
India will lose. It is in England.
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Nah.... We have figured out the right combination now.
Openers are sorted, fast bowlers are in red hot form, Ashwin has figured out how to bowl away from home and Jadeja is in his best form add the new confident version of Rishabh Pant and all looks sorted.
2021 is going to be the greatest year in history of Indian test cricket

Also its a relief that we are facing New Zealand and not Australia.
 
Jeetesh is more cocky than Ravi Shastri , we haven’t even qualified yet lol.

Congratulations to Kiwis, being in Eng it is their best shot to win.
 
My team for Test Championship final. Hope we practice well in next four tests as preparation for WTC final.

1)Rohit Sharma ( Boult's inswingers will be deposited among crowds)
2)Shubhman Gill ( Southee will be treated like Starc)
3)Cheteshwar Pujara ( tire Wagner and Jamieson)
4)Virat Kohli ( smash Jamieson)
5)Rishabh Pants ( smash Jamieson)
6)Ajinkya Rahane (just settle down)
7)Hardik Pandya ( our deflection man for the finals )
8)Ravi Ashwin ( will take care of Williamson )
9)Ishant Sharma ( early breakthroughs)
10)Mohammad Shami ( will run through lineups in second inning)
11)Jasprit Bumrah ( will run through lineup in first inning)
 
India have won 2 out of 18 Tests at Lord's (assuming no changes to the venue) - 1986 and 2014. 4 draws and 12 losses.

Needless to say it's their strongest seam bowling attack in their history though. Big test will be their batsmen vs Kiwi seamers who should enjoy English conditions.
 
It's not gonna be nearly as easy as some Indians think. Did they not learn from the 2019 WC, not to take NZ lightly? Also it's as if getting whitewashed by NZ didn't happen, even though it was less than a year ago.

It will be very close. I think it's genuinely 50-50. India is the better all conditions team but conditions favour NZ.
 
aloo paratha said:
It's not gonna be nearly as easy as some Indians think. Did they not learn from the 2019 WC, not to take NZ lightly? Also it's as if getting whitewashed by NZ didn't happen, even though it was less than a year ago.

It will be very close. I think it's genuinely 50-50. India is the better all conditions team but conditions favour NZ.
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If india bats first and scores 350 plus then it's much over i think.
 
aloo paratha said:
It's not gonna be nearly as easy as some Indians think. Did they not learn from the 2019 WC, not to take NZ lightly? Also it's as if getting whitewashed by NZ didn't happen, even though it was less than a year ago.

It will be very close. I think it's genuinely 50-50. India is the better all conditions team but conditions favour NZ.
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Not a single Indian (except jeetesh) is saying this will be easy. In fact all are saying NZ are favorite. English pitches aid swing bowlers and we have done really bad in swinging pitches. Our batsmen fail and our bowlers, particularly Shami is completely usesless on this kind of wicket. meanwhile. Southee and Boult run through sides on these pitches
 
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Rafa said:
India got a full series against Bangaldesh of all teams..only team so far to play full series against Bangaldesh in the current cycle . That alone gave a huge advantage to India and 120 free points to India on a platter.

NZ Whitewashed India at their home so they are not undeserving by any means.
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Yes right as if India team needed weak time like BD to score 120 points. Replace BD with any team and that 120 points would still stand. Imagine, we had away series to SL, WI, BD? We would have strolled our way to Final. Fact is NZ hardly face any tough teams away from home is making their route quite easy. Even their series against BD in BD wasn’t easy for them. If they had that series on, we probably wouldn’t even discussing about NZ in final.
 
Time to avenge Old Trafford 2019.

:shh

Another Lords final defeat loading for them kiwis.
 
Indiafan said:
Not a single Indian (except jeetesh) is saying this will be easy. In fact all are saying NZ are favorite. English pitches aid swing bowlers and we have done really bad in swinging pitches. Our batsmen fail and our bowlers, particularly Shami is completely usesless on this kind of wicket. meanwhile. Southee and Boult run through sides on these pitches
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Well now I think you're selling yourself short. Ishant, Bumrah and Shami all had pretty decent tours of England in 2018 if I recall correctly. And one can never discount Kohli and Pujara. In my opinion it is 50-50.
 
Shubman Gill
Washington Sundar
Cheteshwar Pujara
Virat Kohli
Ajinkya Rahane
Rishabh Pant
Ravindra Jadeja
Shardul Thakur
Ishant Sharma
Mohammed Siraj
Jasprit Bumrah

If we play this XI and win the toss, it's all over.....:warne
 
To be honest, it's more likely that Boult's inswingers will disloge Rohit's wicket rather than Rohit smashing them into crowds. We need to be cautious with that because a bad start can lead to collapse if the conditions are overcast.
 
RyanRyan10 said:
On this forum, only India's away record matters :jk
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Away record of every team matters but, India's away record comes into discussion more often because there are more Indian supporters on the forum than NZ or any other team (Except Pak) so Indian team is discussed more comprehensively than other teams.
 
NZ to win it comfortably , as swinging condition bolt southee jermienson, williamson in red hot form. India best chance was against australia .
 
Ab Fan said:
2019 WC final bad luck evens out here. Let's see if NZ can pull out a special performance and win their first ever world test championship 2019-21.

It will be a solid contest IMO. NZ generally do well in England and India generally don't.
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NZ have only won 1 test in England in the last 2 decades.
 
India will reach the final / deserve to be there, NZ though - a bloody shambles :mv the lot of them are a right piece of work with the nicey nice act, just DQ them and give KW an award for being a nicey pants, world champion level firemen, that’s where it ends for NZ, bunch of chokers
 
India have to win against Eng first. Then ( assuming India to win) no Rohit Sharma in the team in Eng. Even if Agarwal fails, he can blunt the ball and better than rohit in tests.
 
shaz619 said:
India will reach the final / deserve to be there, NZ though - a bloody shambles :mv the lot of them are a right piece of work with the nicey nice act, just DQ them and give KW an award for being a nicey pants, world champion level firemen, that’s where it ends for NZ, bunch of chokers
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Now we won’t reach the final and you will mock us :)), you showed similar confidence in India during CT 17 :jaya
 
Forward Defensive Push said:
New Zealand may earn their first world title if England don't cause any upsets. I don't see India winning against Boult, Southee, Wagner, Jamieson on a seaming deck.
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Don't forget that India has an equally formidable pace attack, and NZ's batting is pretty much centred around Kane Williamson.

It will be quite an even contest. I dare say India will have the edge if the likes of Gill, Pant and Rahane complement Kohli.
 
Doesn't this serve the Aussies right? They had no legit reason to postpone their tour of SA
 
Heisenberg111 said:
Yes, and India have won 4 tests against England in England in the last 2 decades. My point was that India have done much better than NZ in England in the last 20 years.
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Fair enough, but India had a stronger team in the 2007-2011 period. I don't remember the exact timeline, but they won and drew in Eng during that period.

This is NZ's best team in their history considering they have more than 1-2 world-class players. I won't read much into the past 20 years of record.
 
World Test Champion is the most lamest tournament I have seen anyway. Just get it over with.
 
Congratulations to NZ.

And their attack is very well suited to the English easily summer with a Dukes ball!
 
Heisenberg111 said:
NZ have only won 1 test in England in the last 2 decades.
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Really? Didn't knew that. Thought they might have won one or two more in last decade. But this team has a great chance. They drew in England last time and I think they are touring England this summer too just before the test championship final. That is bad news for us.
 
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Let’s see how NZ ghar kay sher do at Lords.
 
JaDed said:
Now we won’t reach the final and you will mock us :)), you showed similar confidence in India during CT 17 :jaya
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You have a really good team and the margins are in your favour to, it would be good to see a team that done so well recently in the finals but I don’t feel the same way about the nice guys
 
Here is a interesting stat that may blow your mind. New Zealand have won a grand total of 1 test in India, Australia, England and South Africa combined since 2000.
Ab Fan said:
Really? Didn't knew that. Thought they might have won one or two more in last decade. But this team has a great chance. They drew in England last time and I think they are touring England this summer too just before the test championship final. That is bad news for us.
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Heisenberg111 said:
NZ have only won 1 test in England in the last 2 decades.
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NZ were a mediocre all format team until around 2015. They had their moments but overall weren't much of a threat. Since 2015 they've only played 2 tests in England, they won one, and lost the other.
 
Best match up for us, we would have gotten thrashed by Aus.

India are pretty average when the ball moves around and now we should have Jamieson as well.

What people seem to overlook is we will play 2 Tests against England in England before the Final which is 4 days after the last Test for that series.
 
susantcbnu said:
Sorry, forgot about the Hobert test, but still before they counted as one of the top teams, they have to win at least a single test matches in away series in top countries.
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Yeah and we've won 3 Tests in the UAE which you have overlooked.

We also play a fraction of what those 3 teams play.
 
BreadPakoda said:
NZ has been lucky. Most of their wins were at home. And then get to play against maybe India in England, conditions that favor Southee, Boult, etc.

Just imagine if the final was in say Bangladesh or Sri Lanka, or dare I say India. NZ would be annihilated.
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The game could played in India, what we knows is when the pressure is on India crumble.

Heck you lost to us on a damn rank turner in the opening match of the WT20 in India :)))
 
susantcbnu said:
Sorry, I am talking about wins against top teams in their home conditions.
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Pakistan in the UAE were dominant. Everyone got sweeped by them, we managed to draw with them and later beat them albeit a clearly weaker team.
 
Aman said:
The game could played in India, what we knows is when the pressure is on India crumble.

Heck you lost to us on a damn rank turner in the opening match of the WT20 in India :)))
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Yeah, true there was no pressure in Melborne, Sydney or Brisbane.
And we all know who chokes it when the game goes to high pressure situations such as super overs.
 
susantcbnu said:
Sorry, forgot about the Hobert test, but still before they counted as one of the top teams, they have to win at least a single test matches in away series in top countries.
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They won a test in SL too in 2012-13 when Ross Taylor was captain. That SL team was pretty good, it had Mahela, Sanga, Dilshan and Matthews. Herath also was there. They drew test series in SL recently also.

NZ have done well in 2010s. Wins in Aus, SL, UAE, Eng, NZ, they have done it. They don't have any win in India and SA though in last decade. They should win in SA sooner.
 
susantcbnu said:
Yeah, true there was no pressure in Melborne, Sydney or Brisbane.
And we all know who chokes it when the game goes to high pressure situations such as super overs.
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Yeah and we know how your top order has performed against our bowlers.
 
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This entire WTC was a joke, but not that I expected anything else from the ICC.

No of matches played by each team is different, No. of series is different, No. Of home and away games are different, points recalculation is also confusing. I don't know why Australia don't forfeit the points if they don't want to play the series. If a person who doesn't follow cricket properly looks at this table, he/she won't understand a thing.
 
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