‘Cloudy now, Should Get..’: Dinesh Karthik Offers Latest Update on London Weather Ahead of WTC Final 2023

Veteran Indian wicketkeeper batter Dinesh Karthik has offered an update to fans regarding the weather in London as she shared a snap of the ‘cloudy’ morning at the Oval ahead of the highly anticipated World Test Championship (WTC) final between India and Australia.

Karthik, who is part of the commentary panel reached the venue a couple of hours before the match starts officially, the toss is scheduled to take place at 2:30 PM IST, while the match begins at 03:00 PM IST.

Karthik took his Instagram stories to post a weather update and fair to say that it’s not looking too promising, as there was a lot of cloud cover over the Oval before the WTC final 2023, but the 36-year-old said that it is likely to get better as the day progresses.

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“Cloudy now, should get better,” read DK’s note on his Instagram story a couple of hours before the WTC final.

Earlier, Karthik had also revealed that the grass on the pitch had been reduced from 9mm on Monday to 6mm on Tuesday, 24 hours before the final between India and Australia.

He also, shared an update on the pitch, with final preparations being done to prepare the strip ahead of the marquee clash.

The Tamil Nadu batter who had a forgetful IPL 2023 season with Royal Challengers Bangalore named his playing XI for the WTC final, picking KS Bharat ahead of Ishan Kishan, being a wicketkeeper himself.

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With Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill as his openers, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane and Ravindra Jadeja made up the middle order, followed by Shardul Thakur and Umesh Yadav, Mohammed Shami and Mohammed Siraj as the pacers as elected by DK.

For the unversed rain had played spoilsport in the previous WTC final between India and New Zealand in Southampton in 2021 as play was pushed to the reserved day although India lost by 8 wickets.

Similarly, a reserve day is in place for India vs Australia WTC final 2023 as well, and should it rain so heavily that the match doesn’t get completed, then the two teams will share the trophy.