WTC Final: India will aim to bat and have back-up runs on final day – Mohammed Shami

India’s fast bowler Mohammed Shami feels the team will aim to bat and have back up runs on the final day of the World Test Championship final against. The Indian team currently leads by 32 runs in the final and they will need to at least put 175-200 runs on the board.

New Zealand were able to get a lead of 32 runs in the first innings after they scored 249 runs. Meanwhile, Mohammed Shami was the pick of the Indian bowlers on the fifth day of the Test match as he scalped four wickets and bowled at the top of his game.

Shami provided a perfect start to the Indian team as he got the big wicket of Ross Taylor as Shubman Gill took a fine catch. Subsequently, Shami got the wicket of BJ Watling with a brilliant ball whereas also plumbed Colin de Grandhomme in front of the wickets by using the width of the crease.

Meanwhile, Shami stated that the aim of the team will be to put the runs on the board and have back-up runs.

“We have lost a lot of time due to rain. So there is no discussion as such, on a total. We have just started our second innings and we need to put runs on the board,” Shami, India’s man of the day with four wickets, said at the press conference.

“We have to score as many as possible and then see how much time is left to put them in and decide accordingly. “In conditions like England, anything can happen but we simply can’t have a pre-plan in mind that we can get them out in this many overs. You need time to get 10 wickets and some solid plans in place. But first, we need to enough back-up runs,” Shami said

Shami added that he aims to give his best in all the conditions and the same was palpable on the fifth day of the big final.

“Whenever I have been entrusted with responsibility, I have put in my whole hearted effort. Whatever be the situation, I know what the captain wants and then I follow his instructions. I have always been an attacking bowler who goes for wickets.”