{"id":3851,"date":"2022-06-09T22:45:23","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T17:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=227679"},"modified":"2022-06-09T22:45:48","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T17:15:48","slug":"ind-v-sa-aiden-markram-ruled-out-of-the-first-t20i-tests-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ind-v-sa-aiden-markram-ruled-out-of-the-first-t20i-tests-positive-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"IND v SA T20I: Aiden Markram ruled out of the first T20I; tests positive for Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Aiden+markram\">Aiden Markram<\/a>, South African all-rounder, has tested positive for Covid-19 ahead of the first T20I against India on Thursday at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Arun+jaitley+stadium\">Arun Jaitley Stadium<\/a> in Delhi. In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Ind+v+sa\">India vs. South Africa series<\/a>, there is no bio-bubble, thus the players are put to the test on a regular basis. During the toss, Proteas captain Temba Bavuma announced the news. In place of Markram, Tristan Stubbs made his international debut.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\">\u201cAiden was not available for selection as he tested positive for Covid, Stubbs comes in and it is a debut for him. We have two all-rounders; Dwaine and Parnell also come into the fold. It is an important series as we haven\u2019t been together as a group since the World Cup, it is a preparation for the World Cup coming up in Australia. For us it is about to build momentum and build confidence going ahead,\u201d Bavuma said during the toss.<\/div>\n<p>Aiden Markram\u2019s promotion to the middle order of the South African squad prompted him to strengthen his spin defence, strike rate, and white-ball game. Only six hitters in the last year \u2013 Alex Hales, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Jos+buttler\">Jos Buttler<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Kl+rahul\">KL Rahul<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=David+miller\">David Mille<\/a>r, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Mitchell+marsh\">Mitchell Marsh<\/a>, and Harry Brook \u2013 have scored more runs than Markram while averaging over 35 and having a strike rate of over 135, placing Markram in top big-hitting company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tristan Stubbs made his international debut in replacement of Aiden Markram, as stated by Proteas captain Temba Bavuma during the toss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":26899,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2106,1368,3251,1587],"class_list":["post-3851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-aiden-markram","tag-cricket-south-africa","tag-ind-v-sa","tag-t20i-series"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851","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\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}