{"id":42451,"date":"2025-10-01T20:47:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T00:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/india-defines-its-xi-for-the-adelaide-test-shaw-saha-and-ashwin-in-the-starting-lineup\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T20:47:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T00:47:26","slug":"india-defines-its-xi-for-the-adelaide-test-shaw-saha-and-ashwin-in-the-starting-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/cricket\/india-defines-its-xi-for-the-adelaide-test-shaw-saha-and-ashwin-in-the-starting-lineup\/","title":{"rendered":"India defines its XI for the Adelaide Test: Shaw, Saha and Ashwin in the starting lineup."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>India Defines its Lineup 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 main questions for India before the Test included Shaw&#8217;s continuity, the inclusion of a spinner, and the choice of wicketkeeper.\n\nShaw, although under pressure after Shubman Gill&#8217;s good performance in the practice matches, was retained in the starting lineup.\n\nTitle of the post: Impressive performances by Allan Border and Sunil Gavaskar.\n\nDespite his less consistent performance, India chose to maintain continuity in the opening, relying on Shaw&#8217;s experience.\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 anunci\u00f3 su XI un d\u00eda antes del Test de Adelaide\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nIndia announced their XI a day before the Adelaide Test\n\nThe absence of Ravindra Jadeja due to injury and concussion also influenced the decision to keep Ashwin, the starting spinner.\n\nThe choice of wicketkeeper saw India opt for Saha instead of Pant, prioritizing his ball-catching skills.\n\nYadav was selected as the third fast bowler, replacing the injured Ishant Sharma, thanks to his experience and good performance in practice matches.\n\nThe Indian XI for the Adelaide Test is as follows:\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 Defines its Lineup 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 main questions for India before the Test included Shaw&#8217;s continuity, the inclusion of a spinner, and the choice of [&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-42451","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\/42451","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=42451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}