WTC Final: India, NZ battle for crown but rain may play spoilsport

Test cricket, forever in existential crisis in a post-T20 landscape, will for the first time in its 144-year history get a ‘world’ title attached to it when India play New Zealand in the World Test Championship Final in Southampton. The weather, though, is a worry and with rain forecast on all six days (including the reserve day), expect a stop-start game. There is real fear of the first WTC Final ending up a damp squib.

WTC Final: India, NZ battle for crown but rain may play spoilsport
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Test cricket, forever in existential crisis in a post-T20 landscape, will for the first time in its 144-year history get a ‘world’ title attached to it when India play New Zealand in the World Test Championship Final in Southampton. The weather, though, is a worry and with rain forecast on all six days (including the reserve day), expect a stop-start game. There is real fear of the first WTC Final ending up a damp squib.