WTC Final: India, NZ battle for crown but rain may play spoilsport

Welcome to a sporting ‘first’, a rarity in a pandemic-ravaged world. Fitting, then, that this is about an age-old format. Test cricket, forever in existential crisis in a post-T20 landscape, will for the first time in its 144-year history get a ‘world’ title attached to it when India play New Zealand in the World Test Championship Final in Southampton.