Former head coach Ravi Shastri feels that the Indian team should play to its strength and include both Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja in the playing eleven against Australia in the upcoming World Test Championship final at the Oval, next month.
Under Shastri's coaching, the Indian team won a Test match at the Oval in 2021 but it was largely due to the performance of India's pace attack comprising Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Umesh Yadav and Shardul Thakur apart from a classy hundred by the then vice-captain Rohit Sharma.
Picking his XI for the marquee WTC Final, Shastri felt the void left by Bumrah will hurt India's chances and they should counter it by picking another spinner to accommodate for the lack of quicks.
