{"id":32002,"date":"2025-09-06T05:28:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T09:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/india-defines-xi-for-the-test-shaw-saha-and-ashwin-in-the-starting-lineup-2\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T05:28:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T09:28:54","slug":"india-defines-xi-for-the-test-shaw-saha-and-ashwin-in-the-starting-lineup-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/cricket\/india-defines-xi-for-the-test-shaw-saha-and-ashwin-in-the-starting-lineup-2\/","title":{"rendered":"India defines XI for the Test: Shaw, Saha and Ashwin in the starting lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"The Indian cricket team has announced its lineup for the Adelaide Test, with Wriddhiman Saha, R Ashwin, and Prithvi Shaw as representatives.\n\nUmesh Yadav completes the pace bowling trio.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key Decisions in Selection<\/h2>\n\n\nBefore the test, India faced several crucial questions: Shaw&#8217;s continuity, the inclusion of a spinner, and the choice of wicketkeeper.\n\nShaw, despite the competition from Shubman Gill, who performed better in the practice matches, was selected as an opener.\n\nAlthough Gill impressed figures like Allan Border and Sunil Gavaskar, Shaw kept his place.\n\nIn practice matches, Shaw scored 0, 19, 40 and 3, but his loose shots worried Gavaskar and Border.\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 announced their XI a day before the Adelaide Test\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nThe titular spinner, especially with the absence of Ravindra Jadeja due to injury and concussion, also retained his position.\n\nThe last time India chose not to include Ashwin in an opening match of a series was on the 2014-15 Australia tour.\n\nRegarding the wicketkeeper, India opted for Saha instead of Pant.\n\nThe team seems to have decided that the pink ball will require a more established wicketkeeper.\n\nYadav was selected as India&#8217;s third fast bowler, replacing the injured Ishant Sharma.\n\nYadav impressed in the practice match, taking 3 for 48 and 1 for 14.\n\n<h2>India&#8217;s Lineup for the Adelaide Test<\/h2>\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>The Indian cricket team has announced its lineup for the Adelaide Test, with Wriddhiman Saha, R Ashwin, and Prithvi Shaw as representatives. Umesh Yadav completes the pace bowling trio. Key Decisions in Selection Before the test, India faced several crucial questions: Shaw&#8217;s continuity, the inclusion of a spinner, and the choice of wicketkeeper. Shaw, despite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[499,498,500,501],"class_list":{"0":"post-32002","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\/32002","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=32002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}