{"id":4662,"date":"2022-10-23T13:39:49","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T08:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=252693"},"modified":"2022-10-23T13:39:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T08:09:49","slug":"icc-t20-world-cup-live-india-opts-to-field-first-against-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/icc-t20-world-cup-live-india-opts-to-field-first-against-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"ICC T20 World Cup Live: India opts to field first against Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ng-scope\">\n<div id=\"comm_1666510591847\" class=\"cb-col cb-col-100 ng-scope\">\n<p>Indian captain Rohit Sharma won the toss and opted to field first against the archrivals Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Babar Azam too anticipated for a fielding innings but the greens are forced to bat infront the top pacers of India.<\/p>\n<p>Talking about the playing XI, Ravichandran Ashwin is a surprising inclusion by team India as there is no place for Chahal. Dinesh Karthik is the preferred wicket-keeper for today\u2019s game as Rishabh Pant is benched once again.<\/p>\n<p>Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Shami, and Arshdeep Singh are the top pacers for the blues which will be competing the Pakistani bowling unit, which includes Shaheen Afridi, Haris Rauf, and Naseem Shah.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WE ARE READY! \ud83d\udc4d \ud83d\udc4d<\/p>\n<p>Just a few minutes away from LIVE action! \ud83d\udc4f \ud83d\udc4f<\/p>\n<p>Follow the match \u25b6\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mc9useyHwY\">https:\/\/t.co\/mc9useyHwY<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TeamIndia?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TeamIndia<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/T20WorldCup?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#T20WorldCup<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/INDvPAK?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#INDvPAK<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/X3STyKoqoR\">pic.twitter.com\/X3STyKoqoR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BCCI (@BCCI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BCCI\/status\/1584090475098578947?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 23, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><b>Pakistan<\/b>\u00a0(Playing XI): Babar Azam(c), Mohammad Rizwan(w), Shan Masood, Haider Ali, Mohammad Nawaz, Shadab Khan, Iftikhar Ahmed, Asif Ali, Shaheen Afridi, Haris Rauf, Naseem Shah<\/p>\n<div><b>India<\/b>\u00a0(Playing XI): Rohit Sharma(c), KL Rahul, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Dinesh Karthik(w), Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian captain Rohit Sharma won the toss and opted to field first against the archrivals Pakistan. Babar Azam too anticipated\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":27674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3396,1092],"class_list":["post-4662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-icc-t20-world-cup-2022","tag-mcg"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4662","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=4662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}