Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting thinks team India should have selected all-rounder Hardik Pandya for the next final of the World Test Championship (WTC).

India and Australia will meet in the WTC Final II at the Oval in London from June 7-11. The Baggy Greens will play their first World Team Cup final after India were beaten by New Zealand in the first competition in 2021.

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Cricket all-rounder Hardik Pandya made his debut in 2017 and has since featured in 11 Tests, 74 ODIs and 87 T20Is. He has played in 17 Test matches, scoring 532 runs at an average of 31.29 with 104 scores over fifty and taking 17 wickets at 31.05. He has 1584 runs at an average of 33.00 and 72 wickets in ODIs. He has 1271 runs scored and 69 wickets taken in T20I.

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Pandya has performed admirably in limited overs cricket, especially considering his propensity for scoring quick runs and snagging significant wickets. He has proven to be an invaluable member of the team and has been instrumental in many of India’s victories in limited overs cricket. However, Pandya has not had much of an effect in Test cricket.

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“Hardik Pandya could be that X factor” – Ricky Ponting

Ricky Ponting, a batting icon, believes that India should have included Hardik Pandya in their line-up for the World Test Championship final matchup against Australia in London due to his all-around skills, which may have been the deciding factor in the one-match matchup. . . However, Ponting believed that Pandya should have participated in the 7–11 June winner-take-all match at The Oval. Firstly, because he bowled for the Gujarat Titans, the team he captains, in virtually every game of the recently concluded IPL.

“…I thought about the other day for India in this game, how valuable someone like Hardik Pandya could be in a single test match.” Ricky Ponting wrote for ICC Review.