Southampton: Indian team captain Virat Kohli and his New Zealand counterpart Kane Williamson disagree over the one-sided World Test Championship (WTC) final. While Kohli wants a three-Test series to decide the WTC final winner, Williamson said the “one-sided factor” brings excitement like the finals of other formats.
India were defeated by New Zealand by eight wickets in the first WTC final on Wednesday.
Kohli said, “Look, first of all, to be honest, I do not completely agree with deciding the best Test team during a match. If it is a Test series, then it should be a test of character in three Test matches. ” At the press conference after the match.
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“Which team has the potential to come back in the series (should be a factor) … it just can’t be [about] Two days of good cricket put pressure on you and suddenly you are no longer a good Test side. I don’t believe in that,” Kohli continued.
The 32-year-old said the winner of the two-year-long WTC event has to be decided through hard work and not just by winning a one-off Test.
“I think it’s got to be a tough grind and it really definitely needs to be worked on in the future. [decide the winner] At the end of three matches. Efforts, ups and downs, circumstances keep changing throughout the series. [There has to be] A chance to rectify the things that went wrong in the first game. Then you really see who is the better side in the three-match series. It will be a good measure of how things are really,” Kohli said and added that the Indian team has done well in the last 3-4 years and not in the last 18 months.
“We understand what we have done as a Test team in the last three-four years and not just in the last 18 months. [It is] There is no measure of the capability and capability that we have in the last so many years.”
Williamson, however, did not agree with this.
“I think the exciting part of the final is that anything can happen. We know how fickle cricket is and we’ve seen other competitions, other World Cups and all other bits and pieces. The only factor brings a unique dynamic. Which does make it exciting,” said the Kiwi captain, who helped New Zealand clinch the ICC title after two consecutive defeats in the finals of the 50-over World Cup in 2015 and 2019.
He said that scheduling a three-match WTC final with a lot of Test matches would be a big challenge.
“Any day, anything can happen. I think there are arguments for both sides and the challenge will be to determine what [three-match WTC] Series between a lot of cricket that is already going on. The more crickets you have in a series, the more you explore and the more you reveal. But it was an exciting game. It was the first time, both the teams were fully prepared for it and it was a great game of cricket,” Williamson said.
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