{"id":49208,"date":"2025-10-11T23:35:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T03:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/india-defines-its-xi-for-the-adelaide-test-shaw-saha-and-ashwin-starters-19\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T23:35:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T03:35:13","slug":"india-defines-its-xi-for-the-adelaide-test-shaw-saha-and-ashwin-starters-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/cricket\/india-defines-its-xi-for-the-adelaide-test-shaw-saha-and-ashwin-starters-19\/","title":{"rendered":"India defines its XI for the Adelaide Test: Shaw, Saha and Ashwin starters"},"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 upcoming Adelaide Test. 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, despite the pressure, was confirmed as the opener. Although Shubman Gill performed better in the practice matches, Shaw kept his place.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Shaw is a starting pitcher and demonstrated his ability in one of his performances in New Zealand.<\/p><cite>Alofoke Deportes<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\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 un d\u00eda antes del Test de Adelaide\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nRegarding the spinner, Ashwin retained his place, especially in the absence of Ravindra Jadeja due to injury.\n\nIn the wicketkeeper position, India opted for Saha instead of Pant, prioritizing his skills in receiving fast deliveries.\n\nYadav was selected as the third fast bowler, replacing the injured Ishant Sharma.\n\n<strong>India&#8217;s Line-up:<\/strong> 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 Lineup for the Adelaide Test Wriddhiman Saha, R Ashwin, and Prithvi Shaw have been selected to represent India in the upcoming Adelaide Test. 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 wicketkeeper. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[499,498,500,501],"class_list":{"0":"post-49208","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\/49208","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=49208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}