{"id":1472,"date":"2020-11-20T19:55:06","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T14:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=74240"},"modified":"2020-11-20T19:55:06","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T14:25:06","slug":"aus-vs-ind-kohli-is-irreplaceable-for-india-as-a-batsman-and-leader-says-allan-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/aus-vs-ind-kohli-is-irreplaceable-for-india-as-a-batsman-and-leader-says-allan-border\/","title":{"rendered":"AUS vs IND: \u201cKohli is irreplaceable for India as a batsman and leader\u201d says Allan Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Virat Kohli will return to India, after the end of the first Test match. In Kohli\u2019s absence, Ajinkya Rahane will lead the team in the remaining three tests. One of Australia\u2019s greatest, Allan Border feels Kohli can\u2019t be replaced as a batsman and leader. The Australians will have a key edge after the departure of Kohli.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> The first test match will be played at The Adelaide, Oval starting from December 17. Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has granted paternity leave to the Indian batsman. Kohli is set to be with his wife for the birth of their first child.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cI think that is a big \u2018out\u2019 for India,\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0Border told a leading newspaper.<\/span><strong><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0\u201cHe is irreplaceable at the moment as a batsman and as a leader,\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Kohli led India to their first Test series win in Australia on their last tour in 2018-19. However, the home team was playing without their two main batsmen, Steve Smith and David Warner. the both were serving their one-year bans for ball-tampering.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virat Kohli will return to India, after the end of the first Test match. In Kohli\u2019s absence, Ajinkya Rahane will\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":24583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1059,995],"class_list":["post-1472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-allan-border","tag-cricket-australia"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472","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\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}