MELBOURNE: Australia red-ball skipper Tim Paine does not have any doubt that India will trump New Zealand easily to emerge victorious at the World Test Championship final.
World’s top-two Exam teams will battle it out for the name in the Ageas Bowl at Southampton in June 18.
“My forecast isalso, India will acquire quite comfortably when they perform anywhere near their best,” Paine said in a media conference in Brisbane.
Paine had captained Australia against the New Zealand and India.
Even though Australia overcome the Kiwis 3-0 in the home in 2019, they endured a 1-2 defeat against India if Virat Kohli’s side went Down Under in ancient 2020.
New Zealand are arriving to the game well-prepared, after their 1-0 series-win over hosts England however for Paine, it will not count for much because he considers the win came from a depleted side.
England didn’t possess all-rounders Ben Stokes, Chris Woakes and Moeen Ali inside their line-up besides lost Jos Buttler, pacer Jofra Archer and wicketkeeper Ben Foakes.
It is a fact that makes him think that the Ashes series later in the summer are a totally different ball game.
“I believe New Zealand are a fantastic group, ” for one, and second if we are being realistic I personally think that it’s a very different team which we watched England out to the area to what we are likely going to find from the Ashes…
maintaining it in view it wasn’t England’s strongest group,” he explained.