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The Final of the World Test Championship ended with the Blackcaps taking an ICC trophy home for the second time. India lost another ICC knockout match which featured another classic collapse. Kyle Jamieson was adjudged the Man of the Final for his brilliant figures of 5/31 and 2/30. Here are some stats on the Final: 28 - India lost their last 5 wickets in the second innings for just 28 runs in 10.1 overs. 23 - Difference between extras conceded by India and New Zealand. While India gave away 39 runs ( b 4, lb 27, nb 8, wd 0 ), NZ only gave 16 runs ( b 1, lb 11, nb 3, wd 1 ). 2.50 - Average run rate of the match was 2.50 which was 0.63 less than the average run rate of all Tests held at the Rose Bowl. It was 2.34 for India and 2.67 for New Zealand.  1 - It was the first Test match for India on a neutral venue in its 89 years history. New Zealand played it's 7th Test on a neutral venue and has won 4 of them now and lost 2. 71 - Ravichandran Ashwin finished as the highest

You may know him as the son of India's first Test centurion and as a part of India's most prolific cricketing family. You may know him as one of the only 3 players who won the Man of the Match award in both the Semi-final and Final of a World Cup. You may know him as the bowler who trapped Holding LBW as the last wicket in the 83' Final. You may know him as the former chief selector. You may know him as the dependable no. 3 and one of the best in tackling fast bowling. Yes, he is Mohinder Amarnath! In this article, however, we are going to shed some light on his performance in a way Tests, which is very less talked about in the discussions of the best and is surprisingly better than his home performance!! Performances by batsmen away from home in Amarnath's career span are shown in the above graphic. Amarnath scored 3008 runs at an average of 51.6 away from home. He stands in the 7th position in runs scored and has the 4th highest average after Border, C

CricSigma Σ | 2 years, 58 matches, more than 20 series have been fought for the two spots in the WTC Final 2019-2021. India and New Zealand succeeded to secure the top two ranks on the points table. You would expect stars like Kohli, Bumrah, Pant, Pujara, Kane, Boult and Southee to step up for the team. With the final beginning on 18th June in the English city, Southampton, we look at two players who can surprise everyone with their performance in the Final- Ishant Sharma Veteran Indian pacer Ishant Sharma has been one of the pillars of the Indian Test team. Initially seen as a workhorse: a tireless deliverer of thankless overs to control the flow of runs and not looking to run through teams, he is now the leader of arguably the world's best pace battery. What has changed? He has controlled the number of bad balls and is now bowling more potent deliveries: wider of the crease, ensuring that batsmen attempt to play them. He also has worked on his fitness recently whi