{"id":10381,"date":"2025-12-19T18:38:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T13:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=673316"},"modified":"2025-12-19T18:38:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T13:08:23","slug":"ind-vs-sa-5th-t20i-why-is-shubman-gill-not-playing-today-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ind-vs-sa-5th-t20i-why-is-shubman-gill-not-playing-today-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"IND vs SA 5th T20I: Why is Shubman Gill not playing today? Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shubman Gill is not part of India\u2019s playing XI for the <strong>IND vs SA 5th T20I<\/strong> due to a <strong>toe injury<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>India captain Suryakumar Yadav confirmed at the toss that Gill picked up a <strong>toe niggle during the Lucknow game<\/strong>, following which the team management decided not to risk him for the series decider. As a precautionary measure, Gill has been rested, and <strong>Sanju Samson has come into the playing XI<\/strong> as his replacement.<\/p>\n<p>With the World Cup in focus and a packed international schedule ahead, the decision appears to be driven by workload management and injury prevention rather than form-related concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Gill\u2019s absence prompted a reshuffle at the top, while India also brought back <strong>Jasprit Bumrah<\/strong> and <strong>Washington Sundar<\/strong> as part of the team\u2019s tactical changes for the final T20I.<\/p>\n<p>Gill\u2019s availability for upcoming fixtures will depend on how his toe injury responds to rest and treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shubman Gill is not part of India\u2019s playing XI for the IND vs SA 5th T20I due to a toe\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":32881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}