new delhi the top indian stars might be busy with the ipl but head coach rahul dravid and his team will assemble at the national cricket academy on tuesday to start preparations for the world test championship final in juneindia will meet australia at the oval from june 711 for their second consecutive appearance in a world test championship finalwith injuries to key first team players like pace spearhead jasprit bumrah middleorder batter shreyas iyer and the main overseas matchwinner rishabh pant there are a lot of issues that need to be addressed ahead of the big finalread alsoindia can bolster their batting if kl rahul can keep wickets in wtc final ravi shastriroaring back to form with a matchwinning knock of 75 in the first odi against australia after a lean patch kl rahul created a massive impact and got the backing of former india coach ravi shastri who feels the 30yearold can play the world test championship final as a wicketkeeperbatsman afterwont play in wtc final as it wont be ethical on my part hardik pandyaif there is one thing that strikes you about hardik pandya these days it is clarity of thought on the eve of leading india for the first time in an odi against australia at the wankhede stadium pandya was quizzed about whether he would consider the option of finally returning to test cricket bythe workload management aspect also needs to be looked at keeping the odi world cup in minddravid along with batting coach vikram rathour bowling coach paras mhambrey fielding coach t dilip and the other support staff will be meeting the nca team headed by vvs laxman to discuss various issues related to senior team a bcci source privy to development told pti on conditions of anonymitylaxman as the head of nca is not only overseeing the rehabilitation module of centrally contracted injured players under the aegis of sports science and medicine team but at the same time is responsible for tracking the progress of targeted players india india a as well as the emerging players aged between 19 and 23it is expected that both dravid and laxman along with their respective teams would extensively discuss workload management and the plans with regards to preparation for the finalit is there to be seen whether head of sports science nitin patel encounters any tough questions about regular breakdown of players who are coming back after extensive rehabilitation case in point will be iyer red ball and deepak chahar white ballpros and cons of workload managementmost of the ipl franchises have confirmed to pti that there has been no written communication from the bcci to them on workload management of fast bowlers during the eventthe five pacers who are certain to make the main wtc squad list if fully fit are mohammed shami gt umesh yadav kkr mohammed siraj rcb shardul thakur kkr and jaydev unadkat lsga noted coach who has been a key support staff member of the indian cricket team