{"id":40973,"date":"2025-09-27T05:28:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T09:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/india-defines-its-xi-for-the-adelaide-test-shaw-saha-and-ashwin-starters-13\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T05:28:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T09:28:41","slug":"india-defines-its-xi-for-the-adelaide-test-shaw-saha-and-ashwin-starters-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/cricket\/india-defines-its-xi-for-the-adelaide-test-shaw-saha-and-ashwin-starters-13\/","title":{"rendered":"India defines its XI for the Adelaide Test: Shaw, Saha and Ashwin starters"},"content":{"rendered":"Wriddhiman Saha, R Ashwin, and Prithvi Shaw will represent India in the Adelaide Test, as announced by the team.\n\nUmesh Yadav will be the third fast bowler.\n\nThe main questions India faced before the Test were: whether to back Shaw, whether to play a spinner and keep Ashwin, and which wicketkeeper to choose.\n\nThe uncertainty was resolved with the XI&#8217;s designation on the eve of the day-night Test.\n\nShaw, under pressure, was selected despite Shubman Gill&#8217;s better performance in the practice games.\n\nAlthough Shaw is the starting opener, and demonstrated his destructive potential in one of the four innings in New Zealand, his loose shots generated concern.\n\nIt is understood that India was seeking continuity at the top of the lineup, keeping the incumbent.\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 anunci\u00f3 su XI un d\u00eda antes del Test de Adelaida\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\nThe titular spinner, Ashwin, also retained his place, especially in the absence of Ravindra Jadeja due to injury.\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\nDespite the logic of playing Ashwin, not including any spinner in the opening match of the series could have been considered.\n\nRegarding the wicketkeeper, India left out Pant, preferring Saha in Tests outside Asia.\n\nThe technical team seems to have decided that the pink ball demands a more established wicketkeeper.\n\nYadav was the front-runner to be India&#8217;s third fast bowler, replacing the injured Ishant Sharma.\n\nYadav has experience in Tests and also impressed in the only practice game he played.\n\n<strong>India XI:<\/strong> Mayank Agarwal, Prithvi Shaw, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli (capt.), Ajinkya Rahane, Hanuma Vihari, Wriddhiman Saha (wk), R Ashwin, Umesh Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wriddhiman Saha, R Ashwin, and Prithvi Shaw will represent India in the Adelaide Test, as announced by the team. Umesh Yadav will be the third fast bowler. The main questions India faced before the Test were: whether to back Shaw, whether to play a spinner and keep Ashwin, and which wicketkeeper to choose. The uncertainty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[499,498,500,501],"class_list":{"0":"post-40973","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cricket","7":"tag-adelaide-test","8":"tag-india","9":"tag-prithvi-shaw","10":"tag-r-ashwin"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40973","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=40973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}