{"id":18804,"date":"2020-11-09T17:23:43","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T11:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=70550"},"modified":"2020-11-09T17:23:43","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T11:53:43","slug":"ind-vs-aus-rohit-sharma-back-in-test-squad-for-australia-tour-virat-kohli-granted-paternity-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ind-vs-aus-rohit-sharma-back-in-test-squad-for-australia-tour-virat-kohli-granted-paternity-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"IND vs AUS: Rohit Sharma back in test squad for Australia tour; Virat Kohli granted paternity leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-transform: initial\">After a lots of rumours coming in due to the exclusion of Rohit Sharma from the Indian squad for Australia tour, the Indian cricketer has been included in the Indian squad for the Australia tour. Rohit Sharma will be out for ODI\u2019s and T20 series but will play the 4 match test series against Australia.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Indian captain Virat Kohli will take paternity leave and will fly back to India after 1st match against Australia to attend to his wife as they are expecting their first child together after which Rohit Sharma and Ajinkya Rahane will take over.<\/p>\n<p>BCCI took to Twitter to give an update on the changes made for the Indian squad for the Australia tour.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Updates \u2013 India\u2019s Tour of Australia <\/p>\n<p>The All-India Senior Selection Committee met on Sunday to pick certain replacements after receiving injury reports and updates from the BCCI Medical Team.<\/p>\n<p>More details here \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8BSt2vCaXt\">https:\/\/t.co\/8BSt2vCaXt<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AUSvIND?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AUSvIND<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ge0x7bCRBU\">pic.twitter.com\/Ge0x7bCRBU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BCCI (@BCCI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BCCI\/status\/1325752777948065792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 9, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Last month, the BCCI had announced the Indian squads for all the three formats but Rohit Sharma\u2019s name wasn\u2019t included in all of them as the batsman was suffering with a hamstring injury. The tour more than just a month away, the selectors\u2019 decision made many believe that Rohit Sharma\u2019s injury was serious.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, BCCI president Sourav Ganguly speaking on the return of Rohit Sharma, said \u201cBCCI will do everything to bring back Rohit Sharma on field\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The schedule for India\u2019s tour to Australia was confirmed in October. The ODIs will start on November 27 followed by matches on November 29 and December 2. The T20Is will be held on December 4, 6 and 8 followed by the first of the four Test matches in Adelaide from December 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rohit Sharma has been included in the Indian team for the tour  of Australia. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":39520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[934,975],"class_list":["post-18804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl","tag-australia-tour","tag-indian-squad"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18804","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\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}