The final will be played at the Oval from June 7-11.
New Zealand on Monday named a strong squad, which includes five spin bowling options
Cummins, Hazlewood ruled out of Champions Trophy.
Former India selector Sandeep Singh picked India's playing XI for the WTC Final.
Marsh was nonetheless retained in Australia's list of contracted players released on Tuesday for the 2025/26 season in an endorsement by selectors.
Travis Head's blistering century powered Australia's innings on Day 2 of the second Test against India
The new rates will be GBP 100 (INR 10,296), GBP 75 (INR 7722) and GBP 50 (INR 5148).
The match might end in a draw if inclement weather continues to play spoilsport.
Hazlewood makes the cut as Australia confirm WTC final squad
'I don't know what the maths looks like but we're playing good cricket and we want it to continue.'
Both India and Australia will not play a warm-up game ahead of the final beginning at the Oval from June 7.
India have been fined 40 per cent of their match fee and penalised two ICC World Test Championship points for maintaining a slow over-rate against England in the rescheduled fifth Test in Birmingham.
Hayden advises Team India to forget about outcome in WTC final
Former India head coach Ravi Shastri said K S Bharat would be the 'obvious choice' of the team management for the wicketkeeper's role in the WTC final against Australia
ICC general manager of cricket Wasim Khan said the issue was raised in one of the Cricket Committee meetings but was not taken forward.
The five-match Test series between India and England, starting on August 4, will start the second cycle of the ICC World Test Championship (WTC).
'I know we've got a big series but we can worry about that in a couple days' time. You only get a few of these moments in your career where you can sit back, acknowledge a pretty special achievement and that's one of these times.'
Warner's participation was considered doubtful for the next red-ball assignments for Australia, especially after his horrendous run in India with the bat.
Harbhajan Singh reckons the current team has not shown the fearlessness that one needs to win ICC titles
'An important piece of carry-on luggage here. The #WTC21 Mace will travel to its new home in style.'
India has lost three finals and on four occasion it bit dust at the semifinal stage. It also made an exit at the preliminary stage of the 2021 T20 World Cup.
The home side are chasing a modest target of 148 after bowling out Pakistan for 237 and if they win will be assured a place in the WTC final at Lord's.
India all-rounder Shardul Thakur said the WTC final is a once-in-a-lifetime-opportunity.
India and New Zealand will battle it out for the prestigious title at Southampton on June 18.
While retirement is very much a cricketer's individual call, the counter point will be if the national selectors or the BCCI feel that they need to look at the bigger picture and have only one among Rohit and Virat in the ODI set-up going forward.
'I want to win games, I want to win championships'
Gavaskar didn't mince words while pointing out the repeated failures of the team's batters, who failed to cross the 200 mark six out of nine times during the series.
Pat Cummins produced a vicious bowling onslaught to leave India battered and bruised as Australia took a 296-run lead on day three.
'We had hoped that however behind we were, we could've shown more fight but we knew we needed exceptional performances. It was not a 469-run wicket. We gave away a lot of runs -- bowling was disappointing. We played some poor shots yesterday.'
Winning the inaugural ICC World Test Championship against India is one of the proudest achievements for any New Zealander, according to Kiwi pacer Trent Boult.
Anirudha Srikkanth heaped praise on talisman batter Virat Kohli's captaincy and said that he was the reason why India could win Tests outside home soil.
'It's been over a year now since I made some comments about the over-rates to the match referee and umpires, and to this day we're yet to hear any response back from the ICC.'
Smith said he expects the Indian attack to pose a stiff challenge irrespective of the combination they go with.
Pakistan slipped to eighth in the World Test Championship standings following their 10-wicket loss to Bangladesh.
India descended to the 6th position in the ICC World Test Championship points table due to a 2-point penalty
The Indian team's sweater has the logos of the ICC World Test Championship 2021 and BCCI with 'INDIA' written on the front.
WTC finalists to be decided by percentage of points earned: Report
'I think any captain who wants to lead from the front, they want to lead through performance as well, and that's what Temba's done exceptionally well.'
Sourav Ganguly names Rishabh Pant as the next-best red-ball batter after stalwart Virat Kohli and predicts him to have a "huge impact" in the Border Gavaskar Trophy against Australia in Perth on Friday.
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