At the Oval in England, the World Test Championship (WTC) final is being played. Australia led by 296 runs at the end of the third day of play, maintaining its lead throughout the contest. The team still has six wickets left, and Marnus Labushen and Cameron Green are still unbeaten. In the second innings on Friday, the Australian team built up 123 runs for four wickets. The Australian innings will be led on the fourth day by Labushen's 41 runs and Green's 7 runs. The fourth day of the match will begin today at 3 p.m. The weather website Accuweather predicts that today in London there will be no chance of rain and that it will be sunny all day.

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Rahane-Thakur was protected from an attack. Ajinkya Rahane (89 runs) and Shardul Thakur (51 runs) prevented India from playing follow-on in the first innings by scoring half-centuries. They shared a 109-run partnership for the seventh wicket. In the first session, luck again favoured India, and the batsmen received four lives.

Added 62 runs by Smith-Labushen After the openers were dismissed for 24 runs, Marnus Labushen and Steve Smith advanced the innings by combining for 62 runs on 96 balls for the third wicket. Ravindra Jadeja's firing of Smith ended this partnership.

Jadeja removed the 100 players from the game. Australia received initial shocks as it played the second inning. Khwaja and Warner were the team's opening wickets, which they lost for a total of 24 runs, but Steve Smith and Marnus Labuschagne were able to raise the team's score to just over 100. Then, when Jadeja arrived to bowl, he forced Smith to walk with 34 runs on the board. Jaddu also hurt Travis Head (18 runs), another victim. In the previous innings, they both had centuries.

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Day 2: India's top order failed, and nobody reached the 20-point threshold. Gill was then dismissed after scoring 13 runs for himself.

There were hopes for Pujara and Kohli in this situation, but both of these giants persevered by scoring 14-14 runs. Rahane and Jadeja shared a 71-run partnership on 100 balls to keep the Indian innings from falling after losing four wickets at 71. When Lion caught Jadeja by Smith and sent him to the pavilion, Jadeja was two runs away from reaching his half-century. Read the game report.

The opening innings of Australia from here...

Kangaroo was out for 469 runs after losing its final seven wickets, totaling 108 runs.

In the first over of the second day, Steve Smith scored his century. Travis Head also exceeded 150 runs. After adding 34 runs to the score on the first day, Head was caught off guard. The team's seventh wicket also fell for 402 runs after the fourth wicket fell for 361 runs.

For the eighth wicket, Pat Cummins and Alex Carey combined for 51 runs. The team was all out until 469, after Carry was LBW for 453 runs. Australia scored 108 runs before losing their final seven wickets in this manner. Australia batted for 36.3 overs on day two after batting for 85 overs on day one.

Day 1: Australia (327/3), centurion Head-Smith returned unbeaten
On the first day, the Australian team scored 327 runs for three wickets. For the team, Travis Head returned unbeaten on 146 and Steve Smith on 95 runs. read match report

Fifty Partnership at Warner-Labushen
Australia's innings was taken over by David Warner and Marnus Labushen after the first wicket was lost in the fourth over. Warner hit four fours in Umesh Yadav's first over as they combined for 69 runs off 108 balls. After scoring 43 runs, Warner was defeated by Shardul, and this partnership was broken.

50th test for both captains
The captains of both teams are, coincidentally, playing in their 50th Test match. The 50th Test match between Australian captain Pat Cummins and Indian captain Rohit Sharma is currently underway.

playing 11 of both teams

India: Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, KS Bharat (wicketkeeper), Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Mohammed Shami, Umesh Yadav, Mohammed Siraj

Australia: Pat Cummins (c), David Warner, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Steve Smith, Travis Head, Cameron Green, Alex Carey (wk), Nathan Lyon, Mitchell Starc, Scott Boland

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