Team India WTC Final Qualification Scenario: The Indian cricket team has suffered a crushing defeat of 3-1 in the five-match Border Gavaskar series being played against Australia. India has faced defeat in the last Test match played between the two teams in Sydney. The match ended in just 3 days and the Indian team, which came in the absence of Rohit, has surrendered to the Kangaroos. India has finally lost the Border Gavaskar Trophy after 10 years. After this defeat, the team's hopes of reaching the World Test Championship final have suffered a major setback.

Talking about the match, the Indian cricket team, batting first, could score only 185 runs, while the Australian team collapsed in just 181 balls in response. However, India failed in the second innings and were all out for only 157 runs. In such a situation, Australia got a target of only 161 runs to win. India's second innings did not start well as they came out without their captain Jasprit Bumrah, who has opted not to bowl in the Test match due to injury concerns. In Bumrah's absence, the Indian bowlers did not score too many runs and gave away easy runs to Australia.

The first wicket for India was taken by Prasidh Krishna when Sam Constas tried to play a big shot against him but was caught by Washington Sundar at mid-off. The right-arm pacer picked up the big wickets of Marnus Labuschagne (6) and Steve Smith (4) to reduce Australia to 58/3. Later, Khawaja also left but Travis Head and Webster combined to take the team to victory.

Can the Indian team reach the WTC final? ( Team India WTC Qualification Scenario )

To reach the final of the World Test Championship 2025, it was very important for the Indian team to win the Sydney Test match. After losing this match, the Indian team is now out of the race for its third WTC final and the result of the Test series to be played between Australia and Sri Lanka is also not going to make any difference now. This clearly means that in June 2025, a thrilling final will be played between Australia and South Africa Cricket Team (AUS vs SA) at Lord's in June.