{"id":31046,"date":"2025-09-03T05:33:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T09:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/india-defines-its-xi-for-the-test-shaw-saha-and-ashwin-starters-3\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T05:33:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T09:33:30","slug":"india-defines-its-xi-for-the-test-shaw-saha-and-ashwin-starters-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/cricket\/india-defines-its-xi-for-the-test-shaw-saha-and-ashwin-starters-3\/","title":{"rendered":"India defines its XI for the Test: Shaw, Saha and Ashwin starters"},"content":{"rendered":"India announces its team for the Adelaide Test, with Wriddhiman Saha, R Ashwin, and Prithvi Shaw as pillars.\n\nUmesh Yadav completes the pace bowling trio. Pre-match questions included Shaw&#8217;s continuity, the inclusion of a spinner, and the choice of wicketkeeper.\n\nShaw, despite the competition from Shubman Gill, who showed a better performance in the practice matches, retained his place as an opener.\n\nHis performance in the practice games generated debate, but continuity in the starting eleven was prioritized.\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 announced their XI a day before the Adelaide Test\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\nThe titular spinner, especially with the absence of Ravindra Jadeja due to injury, also maintained his position.\n\nThe decision not to include Ashwin in the past generated criticism, so this time experience was chosen.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The choice of wicketkeeper favored Saha over Pant, due to his superior skills in the position.<\/p><cite>The preference for Saha is based on his prowess as a pure wicketkeeper, especially with the pink ball.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nYadav was selected as the third fast bowler, replacing Ishant Sharma, who is injured.\n\nHis experience and performance in the practice match solidified him in the team.\n\n<ul><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>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India announces its team for the Adelaide Test, with Wriddhiman Saha, R Ashwin, and Prithvi Shaw as pillars. Umesh Yadav completes the pace bowling trio. Pre-match questions included Shaw&#8217;s continuity, the inclusion of a spinner, and the choice of wicketkeeper. Shaw, despite the competition from Shubman Gill, who showed a better performance in the practice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[499,6622,498,500],"class_list":{"0":"post-31046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-adelaide-test","9":"tag-ashwin","10":"tag-india","11":"tag-prithvi-shaw"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31046","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=31046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}