Talk:2021 ICC World Test Championship final

Semi-protect?

This page should be protected because World Test Championship final is starting today. Hence there is a need for semi-protection to protect from vandalism. RIDHVAN SHARMA (talk) 05:09, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia doesn't protect pre-emptively- if there is a high level of disruption, we can request protection then. Joseph2302 (talk) 08:38, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

Match summary session by session

I have just attempted to write match summary on my own words but it might look awkward a bit. It is also important to add the sources so I did not add these information in the article. Abishe (talk) 14:47, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

Day 2

Session 1: Lunch

After the Day 1 of the test being completely washed out due to rains, the proceedings of the test match commenced with New Zealand captain Kane Williamson winning the toss and electing to field first in a slow wet outfield. Indian openers Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill started the innings on a cautious approach against the opening New Zealand bowlers Tim Southee and Trent Boult who were both looking rusty in the opening session of the day. Both the Indian openers initially were quite nervy due to the seam movements early on with Kiwi bowlers continued to ball out swinging and inswinging deliveries. However, New Zealand bowlers failed to create consistent pressure as both the openers made use of the advantage and registered a fine start putting up a 62 run stand. Rohit was the first wicket to fall as he departed to the pavilion by Kyle Jamieson on 34 and later Gill was also sent to the pavilion by Neil Wagner on 28. India ended the session on 69 for the loss of two wickets as Cheteshwar Pujara was unbeaten on zero off 24 balls while captain Virat Kohli was unbeaten on 24. The session was evenly poised as both New Zealand and India sharing the first session before lunch.

Session 2: Tea

The second session of Day 2 post lunch started with 2 consecutive maiden overs from New Zealand. New Zealand bowlers continued to create pressure to Indian batsmen after getting the momentum during the last few overs of the first session where they dismissed both the openers. It was a matter of building up resistance and resilience against the Kiwi bowlers for both Pujara and Kohli in the second session after the fall of two wickets at regular intervals during the first session. Both Pujara and Kohli needed to occupy the crease for long time and slowly regain the momentum in order to reduce the pressure for the rest of the batting line up. Not to forget that there was always going to be a threat of collapse as Duke ball has the tendency to trigger batting collapses. It was obvious when the Kiwi bowlers got seam movements regularly. Pujara was dismissed by a jaffa from Boult who only managed to score 8 runs despite being at the crease facing 54 balls. However, both Rahane and Kohli continued the cautious approach patiently negotiating the good inswinging deliveries especially from Southee and waited for the bad balls to score boundaries. Just before 10 minutes, umpires called for early tea session due to concerns on bad light despite the fact that the floodlights were switched on. It was indeed a good decision to call early tea since it would be unfavourable for batsmen to negotiate the deliveries in gloomy weather conditions. Rahane and Kohli stranded at the crease with an unbeaten run stand of 32 just before the tea session. Kohli remained unbeaten on 35 off 94 balls and played against his natural game while Rahane provided good support with unbeaten on 13. India ended the second session with scoreboard reading at 120/3. Eventhough India were kinda slow with their cautious attitude, the second session well and truly belonged to India as they lost just one wicket in the session. Abishe (talk) 14:47, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for attempting to start this. There's always a danger of too much superfluous detail. The opening bit of session 2 is listing every last bit of trivial info, and then veres off into WP:OR terrority. I don't think there's a need to break it down into each session either. A couple of lines of summary for day one would be enough (IMO). NZ won the toss, India scored quickly before losing two quick wickets. Bad light stopped play. That's pretty much it! Lugnuts ^{Fire Walk with Me} 16:17, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

Icc world test championship date line problem

Is it wrong to write 5-day + reserve day match near the date in the final of icc world test championship I saw it was written y day match near the 2005 ICC Super Series super test so though this was not original a 6 day match writing 5-day + reserve day match means a lot for the article Chinakpradhan (talk) 16:19, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

The 2005 ICC Super Series was always scheduled for 6 days. I would put it as 18-23 June 2021, with a note that 23 June was a reserve day that was used. We do that for other Test matches that finish on fewer than 5 days. Joseph2302 (talk) 10:30, 23 June 2021 (UTC)