India got a little ahead of themselves by not changing WTC final squad despite rain delay: Alastair Cook

Alastair Cook, like many other former players, also said that India were hard done by the lack of match practice they had as compared to New Zealand in the World Test Championship final.

India may have been too confident of their playing XI for the World Test Championship and should have made changes when they saw that the first day was washed, former England captain Alastair Cook has said. "They (India) got a bit confident in picking that side three days out before (the game) and playing two spinners where they pretty much knew it was going to rain for a lot of that game. So a lot of seam bowling was bowled. Even though their spinners are world-class, they got a little bit ahead of themselves there," said Cook on the Tuffers and Vaughan podcast on BBC Sport.