{"id":32551,"date":"2025-09-08T05:30:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T09:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/india-reveals-xi-for-adelaide-test-shaw-ashwin-and-saha-to-start-3\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T05:30:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T09:30:45","slug":"india-reveals-xi-for-adelaide-test-shaw-ashwin-and-saha-to-start-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/cricket\/india-reveals-xi-for-adelaide-test-shaw-ashwin-and-saha-to-start-3\/","title":{"rendered":"India reveals XI for Adelaide Test: Shaw, Ashwin and Saha to start"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>India Defines its Starting Eleven for the Adelaide Test<\/h2>\n\nWriddhiman Saha, R Ashwin, and Prithvi Shaw have been selected to represent India in the next test in Adelaide. Umesh Yadav completes the trio of fast bowlers.\n\nThe selection of the Indian team faced crucial decisions days before the test, especially regarding maintaining confidence in Shaw, the inclusion of a spinner, and the choice of wicketkeeper.\n\nThe team resolved these doubts when announcing their starting eleven.\n\nShaw, despite the pressure exerted by Shubman Gill, who showed a better performance in the practice matches, was confirmed as an opener.\n\nAlthough Gill impressed, Shaw, with his experience and potential, was chosen to maintain continuity in the opening.\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 once inicial para el Test de Adelaide\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nRegarding the spinner, Ashwin, he remained in the team, especially with the absence of Ravindra Jadeja due to injury.\n\nThe decision not to include Ashwin in an opening match was criticized in the past, so his experience was opted for.\n\nThe choice of wicketkeeper led to the decision to leave out Pant, preferring Saha for his skills in specific conditions. The team management considered that the pink ball demanded a pure and experienced wicketkeeper.\n\nYadav, with experience in tours of Australia and a good performance in practice matches, was selected as the third fast bowler.\n\n<b>India Team:<\/b> Mayank Agarwal, Prithvi Shaw, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli (c), Ajinkya Rahane, Hanuma Vihari, Wriddhiman Saha (wk), R Ashwin, Umesh Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India Defines its Starting Eleven for the Adelaide Test Wriddhiman Saha, R Ashwin, and Prithvi Shaw have been selected to represent India in the next test in Adelaide. Umesh Yadav completes the trio of fast bowlers. The selection of the Indian team faced crucial decisions days before the test, especially regarding maintaining confidence in Shaw, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[499,498,500,501],"class_list":{"0":"post-32551","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\/32551","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=32551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}