{"id":24438,"date":"2025-08-13T05:35:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T09:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/india-defines-xi-for-adelaide-test-shaw-ashwin-and-saha-start\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T05:35:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T09:35:46","slug":"india-defines-xi-for-adelaide-test-shaw-ashwin-and-saha-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/cricket\/india-defines-xi-for-adelaide-test-shaw-ashwin-and-saha-start\/","title":{"rendered":"India defines XI for Adelaide Test: Shaw, Ashwin and Saha start"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>India reveals its lineup for the Adelaide Test<\/h2>\n\nWriddhiman Saha, R Ashwin, and Prithvi Shaw will represent India in the Adelaide Test, with Umesh Yadav as the third fast bowler. The team selection resolved doubts about the starting lineup, including the choice of opener and spinner.\n\nThe decision to keep Shaw as the opening batsman was made despite Shubman Gill&#8217;s good performance in the practice matches. Shaw, although he showed potential, raised concerns with his shots in the practice games. However, continuity in the lineup was a key factor in the decision.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fi%2Fcricket%2Fcricinfo%2F1244082_900x1125.png\" alt=\"India anuncia su XI un d\u00eda antes del Test de Adelaide\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nRavindra Jadeja&#8217;s absence due to injury also influenced the decision to keep Ashwin in the team. India opted for Ashwin, an experienced spinner, instead of trying out other players.\n\nRegarding the wicketkeeper, India chose Saha, prioritizing his skills in catching, especially with the pink ball. The team management considered Saha&#8217;s experience to be valuable in the game&#8217;s conditions.\n\nUmesh Yadav was selected as the third fast bowler due to his experience and performance in the practice game, where he demonstrated his ability with both the ball and the bat.\n\n<b>India Lineup:<\/b>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Mayank Agarwal<\/li><li>Prithvi Shaw<\/li><li>Cheteshwar Pujara<\/li><li>Virat Kohli (c)<\/li><li>Ajinkya Rahane<\/li><li>Hanuma Vihari<\/li><li>Wriddhiman Saha (wk)<\/li><li>R Ashwin<\/li><li>Umesh Yadav<\/li><li>Mohammed Shami<\/li><li>Jasprit Bumrah<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India reveals its lineup for the Adelaide Test Wriddhiman Saha, R Ashwin, and Prithvi Shaw will represent India in the Adelaide Test, with Umesh Yadav as the third fast bowler. The team selection resolved doubts about the starting lineup, including the choice of opener and spinner. The decision to keep Shaw as the opening batsman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[499,498,500,501],"class_list":{"0":"post-24438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-adelaide-test","9":"tag-india","10":"tag-prithvi-shaw","11":"tag-r-ashwin"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}