India in the air as Test cricket gets ready for big moment at The Oval

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London As soon as you start making your way out of the Oval underground station, you realise there is a World championship final happening in London -- and that it features India..

A bank has taken over the wall of the escalator to ground level, where hoardings of a news channel tower over the street..

Former Australia skipper Ricky Ponting, who is an expert for ICC, feels the event is comparable to a true World Cup final...

These two teams have over the last two years have earned the right to be out here, in a couple of days time, in a one-off game, to be able to hold that thing (mace) at the end, Ponting said...

In an ICC event on Sunday, Wasim Akram emphasised that Australia and India deserved to be in the final after a rigorous two-year cycle...

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