{"id":2328,"date":"2021-03-12T12:37:02","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T07:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=98355"},"modified":"2021-03-12T12:37:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T07:07:02","slug":"ind-vs-eng-1st-t20i-i-would-play-suryakumar-yadav-ahead-of-shreyas-iyer-at-no-4-says-deep-dasgupta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ind-vs-eng-1st-t20i-i-would-play-suryakumar-yadav-ahead-of-shreyas-iyer-at-no-4-says-deep-dasgupta\/","title":{"rendered":"Ind vs Eng 1st T20I: I would play Suryakumar Yadav ahead of Shreyas Iyer at No. 4, says Deep Dasgupta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former cricketer-turned-commentator Deep Dasgupta said he would pick Suryakumar Yadav ahead of Shreyas Iyer in the Indian team for the series-opening T20 international against England in Ahmedabad.<\/p>\n<p>Suryakumar has been a steady entertainer for Mumbai Indians over the most recent couple of years and assumed a vital part in the Rohit Sharma-drove side\u2019s fifth Indian Premier League title win a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>He was rewarded for his exploits in IPL 2020 with a maiden international call-up to the Indian side for the upcoming 5 T20Is against England.<\/p>\n<p>Shreyas Iyer then again, has been conflicting with the bat for Team India in the center request. Iyer has amassed 429 runs in 24 T20Is till date at a normal of 26.81 with 2 half-hundreds of years.<\/p>\n<p>Iyer\u2019s average however, goes up to 50 at No. 4 in T20Is but Dasgupta still feels Suryakumar is better suited for that position.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would play Suryakumar Yadav before Shreyas Iyer. It\u2019s just that at No. 4 in T20 cricket I think Suryakumar Yadav is better suited at this point in time,\u201d Dasgupta told Sports Today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former cricketer-turned-commentator Deep Dasgupta said he would pick Suryakumar Yadav ahead of Shreyas Iyer in the Indian team for the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":25422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[658,1563],"class_list":["post-2328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-shreyas-iyer","tag-surya-kumar-yadav"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328","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\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}