{"id":5098,"date":"2023-01-05T00:43:34","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T19:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=269118"},"modified":"2023-01-05T00:43:34","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T19:13:34","slug":"ind-v-sl-know-more-about-jitesh-sharma-who-gets-an-international-call-after-sanju-samson-gets-ruled-out-of-the-remaining-t20is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ind-v-sl-know-more-about-jitesh-sharma-who-gets-an-international-call-after-sanju-samson-gets-ruled-out-of-the-remaining-t20is\/","title":{"rendered":"IND v SL: Know more about Jitesh Sharma who gets an international call after Sanju Samson gets ruled out of the remaining T20Is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jitesh Sharma, the 29-year old wicketkeeper-batter from Vidarbha, has been named Samson\u2019s replacement. Jitesh made his IPL debut in 2022 playing for Punjab Kings.<\/p>\n<p>After suffering a left knee injury in the opening match in Mumbai, Sanju Samson has been ruled out of the final two Twenty20 Internationals against Sri Lanka. The wicketkeeper-batter stayed behind in Mumbai for scans and a specialist\u2019s opinion, and was advised to rest and undergo rehabilitation rather than travelling to Pune with the Indian team.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEWS \u2013 Sanju Samson ruled out of the remainder of T20I series. <\/p>\n<p>The All-India Senior Selection Committee has named Jitesh Sharma as replacement for Sanju Samson.<\/p>\n<p>More details here \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0PMIjvONn6\">https:\/\/t.co\/0PMIjvONn6<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/INDvSL?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#INDvSL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mastercardindia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@mastercardindia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BCCI (@BCCI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BCCI\/status\/1610684855460974592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Jitesh Sharma, a 28-year-old wicketkeeper, was purchased by Punjab Kings at the 2022 IPL auction for his base price of Rs 20 lakh.<br \/>\nThe 2021 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy semifinal run by Vidarbha was greatly aided by Sharma.<\/p>\n<p>The wicket-keeper scored 214 runs at an astounding strike rate of 235.16 while batting primarily in the middle order, between Numbers 3 and 5. In addition to that, he also had a 53.50 average.<\/p>\n<p>Jitesh was previously a member of the IPL and was acquired by the Mumbai Indians in 2016. He was released prior to the 2018 auction after not appearing in a single game, and he hasn\u2019t returned to the league since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jitesh Sharma, the 29-year old wicketkeeper-batter from Vidarbha, has been named Samson\u2019s replacement. Jitesh made his IPL debut in 2022\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":28070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3275,629],"class_list":["post-5098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-jitesh-sharma","tag-sanju-samson"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5098","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=5098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}