{"id":3039,"date":"2022-01-08T20:05:45","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T14:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=178455"},"modified":"2022-01-08T20:05:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T14:35:45","slug":"ashes-2022-live-usman-khawaja-comeback-for-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ashes-2022-live-usman-khawaja-comeback-for-ages\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashes 2022 Live \u2013 Usman Khawaja comeback for ages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ashes 2022 Live \u2013 Before the Ashes series, there were quite speculations around Usman Khawaja\u2019s availability for the test series. Was it the right one to include Usman Khawaja in the lineup? The player who has played his last test match in 2019, has the part of domestic games after then. So how\u2019s feasible to include players for such a big campaign.<\/p>\n<p>In the first three test matches, Usman Khawaja hasn\u2019t got the chance to represent the team due to a tough batting combination. And, Australia had already taken the 3-0 lead in the series. But the news Travis Head test positive for Covid-19 turned out to be the equation for the inclusion of Khawaja.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Make that TWO! <\/p>\n<p>Back-to-back centuries for Usman Khawaja \u2013 and he's made it look really easy! \ud83d\ude0e <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ashes?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Ashes<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cGcDCHLjnR\">pic.twitter.com\/cGcDCHLjnR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cricketcomau\/status\/1479691304053268484?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>With back-to-back centuries in test matches, Gilchrist said it\u2019s tough for the selectors now to sidelined Khawaja over others in the queue. Harris restricts his chances.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI think he has to stay in the team. I love a sense of loyalty, I know that\u2019s something the selectors, and particularly Justin Langer have tried to commit to Marcus Harris by staying with him and they were repaid somewhat down at the MCG, but Harris will be kicking himself he\u2019s missed two opportunities to convert. I think Usman Khawaja has clearly shown he\u2019s in the top six best batters in Australia.\u201d Gilchrist to cricket Australia<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usman Khawaja push the hosts inches close to another victory with back to back centuries. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":26121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2926,350,332,607,1251],"class_list":["post-3039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-ashes-2021","tag-joe-root","tag-mitchell-starc","tag-pat-cummins","tag-usman-khawaja"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039","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\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}