Team India suffered a 209-run defeat towards Australia within the World Test Championship remaining at The Oval and misplaced one other ICC trophy. Skipper Rohit Sharma, who took cost because the chief after the crew’s exit from the T20 World Cup in 2021, below the captaincy of Virat Kohli. However, he has additionally not been in a position to make India victorious in an ICC event, as they’d final claimed it in 2013 below MS Dhoni. After India’s debacle within the WTC remaining, many consultants and former cricketers have been expressing their opinions relating to the identical. Similarly, former India batter Aakash Chopra has provide you with an fascinating concept for the upcoming WTC cycle.

The former batter has acknowledged that being an ICC occasion, WTC must also host the Test matches between the arch-rivals India and Pakistan as it will seize a variety of consideration from the followers and can be a fantastic begin to the cycle.

“You don’t play against all teams. But this is WTC, it’s an ICC event. It has been 4 years now… can you imagine an ICC event without India vs Pakistan? This can never happen. It’s always at the start of the tournament so it gets off to a great start commercially. It gets the highest rating and people make money,” Chopra said on his YouTube channel.

“So, is WTC not an ICC event? It’s an ICC mace, they host the final. So, all the matches that take place in the cycle should be in the purview of the ICC. It will be 6 years, and you didn’t have a single India-Pakistan series. This is also an ICC event. If it’s not, make it clear. Call it bilateral cricket and accept that you have made WTC just to glamorize Tests,” he additional mentioned.

India and Pakistan do not play towards one another in bilateral collection as a result of political tensions between the nations. However, each groups performed within the T20 World Cup in 2022, the place India emerged because the winner by 4 wickets.

Talking concerning the Tests, after going through a defeat within the WTC remaining, India will start their 2023 cycle with a collection towards West Indies, ranging from July 12. The groups will play two Tests, three ODIs and 5 T20Is.