{"id":3871,"date":"2022-06-12T21:23:34","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T15:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=228036"},"modified":"2022-06-12T21:26:06","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T15:56:06","slug":"t20-world-cup-2022-dinesh-karthik-dropped-from-gautam-gambhirs-playing-xi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/t20-world-cup-2022-dinesh-karthik-dropped-from-gautam-gambhirs-playing-xi\/","title":{"rendered":"T20 World Cup 2022: Dinesh Karthik dropped from Gautam Gambhir\u2019s playing XI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Indian cricketer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Gautam+Gambhir+\">Gautam Gambhir<\/a> names his top Indian batsmen for the T20 World Cup 2022 during the commentary of ongoing second match of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Ind+v+sa\">five-match T20I series featuring India and South Africa<\/a> at Barabati stadium on Sunday. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Dinesh+Karthik\">Dinesh Karthik<\/a> was dropped in preference of young player Deepak Hooda by the former Indian opener.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian team selected a solid batting order to battle the Proteas in the T20I series, but Gambhir was vocal over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Deepak+hooda\">Deepak Hooda\u2019s<\/a> absence and wished him to replace Dinesh Karthik.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian team picked Dinesh Karthik, an experienced and worthy wicketkeeper-batsman, over Hooda, who had a terrific campaign for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=IPL+2022\">Royal Challengers Bangalore in the IPL 2022<\/a>. Regardless of the fact that Karthik barely faced two balls in the first match, Gambhir believes Hooda should\u2019ve been given a chance since he has the ability to play for the national team.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Dinesh Karthik showed off his finishing abilities with a 21-ball 30-run cameo in the second T20I of the five-match series against South Africa on Sunday, helping India record 148 for six after being put into bat.<\/p>\n<p>Gautam Gambhir\u2019s T20 World Cup XI top batsmen<\/p>\n<p>Ishan Kishan<br \/>\nRohit Sharma<br \/>\nSuryakumar Yadav<br \/>\nVirat Kohli<br \/>\nKL Rahul<br \/>\nDeepak Hooda<br \/>\nHardik Pandya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Dinesh Karthik\u2019s rapid 30-run stint boosted India to 148 on a challenging Cuttack pitch, the seasoned wicketkeeper\u2019s finishing talents were put to the test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":26919,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1298,585,103],"class_list":["post-3871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-deepak-hooda","tag-dinesh-karthik","tag-gautam-gambhir"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871","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=3871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}