{"id":4641,"date":"2022-10-19T15:20:18","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T09:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=251863"},"modified":"2022-10-19T15:20:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T09:50:18","slug":"i-dont-think-that-will-be-starting-in-the-11-for-steve-smith-selector-george-bailey-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/i-dont-think-that-will-be-starting-in-the-11-for-steve-smith-selector-george-bailey-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI don\u2019t think that will be starting in the 11 for Steve Smith,\u201d Selector George Bailey comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u2019s Chairman of Selectors George Bailey has said that Steve Smith is unlikely to be in the starting lineup for the opening match against New Zealand. Tim David, who had been making all the appropriate statements in the finishing role leading up to this T20 World Cup, will unsurprisingly fill the post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think all the members of our 15 have a role to play but I don\u2019t think that will be starting in the 11 for Steve,\u201d Bailey said. \u201cI think that\u2026 should we need a role from him at some stage, then absolutely.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"cb-nws-dtl-itms\">\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\">\u201cHe is tracking well. I don\u2019t think it is any secret that our allrounders are an important part of our structure.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"cb-nws-dtl-itms\">\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\">\u201cI think he has hit all the markers that he wanted to but I think given the importance of that structure it is not something we wanted to risk too early but I fully expect that Mitch will be available and ready to go, whether that is Saturday or game two.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u2019s Chairman of Selectors George Bailey has said that Steve Smith is unlikely to be in the starting lineup for\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":27654,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[770,3396,349],"class_list":["post-4641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-david-warner","tag-icc-t20-world-cup-2022","tag-steve-smith"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641","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\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}