{"id":59724,"date":"2025-10-23T23:39:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T03:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/india-defines-xi-for-adelaide-test-shaw-saha-and-ashwin-in-the-starting-lineup-40\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T23:39:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T03:39:06","slug":"india-defines-xi-for-adelaide-test-shaw-saha-and-ashwin-in-the-starting-lineup-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/cricket\/india-defines-xi-for-adelaide-test-shaw-saha-and-ashwin-in-the-starting-lineup-40\/","title":{"rendered":"India defines XI for Adelaide Test: Shaw, Saha and Ashwin in the starting lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

India reveals its lineup for the Adelaide Test<\/h2>\n\n\nWriddhiman Saha, R Ashwin, and Prithvi Shaw will represent India in the Adelaide Test. Umesh Yadav will be the third fast bowler. These were the main questions India contemplated two days before the Test: whether to continue backing the flashy Shaw, whether to play with a spinner and persist with the safer option of Ashwin, and which of the wicketkeepers to choose.\n\nOn the eve of the day-night Test, they resolved all the confusion by naming the XI.\n\nShaw had been under pressure with Shubman Gill, who performed better in the two matches of the tour.\n\nShaw was the starting pitcher and showed in a four-inning stint in New Zealand that he can be destructive.\n\nDespite scoring 0, 19, 40 and 3 in the two tour matches, it was his loose shots that worried.\n\n\n
\"India<\/figure>\n\n\nSimilarly, the Test’s starting pitcher, especially with the absence of Ravindra Jadeja due to injury and concussion, kept his place.\n\nThe last time India chose not to play Ashwin in an opening match of a series was on the 2014-15 Australia tour.\n\nIt’s reasonable to play Ashwin, but this time, it could have been argued not to play a spinner at all in the series opener because in day-night Tests in Australia, spinners have averaged 49 despite Lyon’s superlative average of 25 in these matches.\n\nThere is no doubt that Ashwin and Lyon have been the two leading bowlers in test cricket, followed only a little by Jadeja, during this decade.\n\nIn the case of the wicketkeeper, however, India dropped the regular Pant, who has been preferred over Saha in Tests outside of Asia, where most of the wicketkeeping is done standing.\n\nThe management team seems to have decided that the pink ball does a lot and will require a more established pure wicketkeeper. And despite Pant’s century in the SCG warm-up, he had an ordinary tour of New Zealand, scoring 60 runs in four innings.\n\nYadav was the favorite to be India’s third fast bowler, replacing the injured Ishant Sharma. Not only does he have Test experience (this is his fourth tour of Australia), but he also impressed in the only warm-up match he played, taking 3 for 48 and 1 for 14 and also scoring useful runs down the order.\n\nIndia XI: 1 Mayank Agarwal, 2 Prithvi Shaw, 3 Cheteshwar Pujara, 4 Virat Kohli (captain), 5 Ajinkya Rahane, 6 Hanuma Vihari, 7 Wriddhiman Saha (wk), 8 R Ashwin, 9 Umesh Yadav, 10 Mohammed Shami, 11 Jasprit Bumrah","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

India reveals its lineup for the Adelaide Test Wriddhiman Saha, R Ashwin, and Prithvi Shaw will represent India in the Adelaide Test. Umesh Yadav will be the third fast bowler. These were the main questions India contemplated two days before the Test: whether to continue backing the flashy Shaw, whether to play with a spinner […]<\/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-59724","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\/59724","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=59724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}