{"id":5240,"date":"2023-01-15T11:39:50","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T06:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=271832"},"modified":"2023-01-15T11:39:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T06:09:50","slug":"cricket-experts-including-irfan-pathan-harsha-bhogle-share-their-thoughts-on-bcci-ignoring-sarfaraz-khan-for-australia-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/cricket-experts-including-irfan-pathan-harsha-bhogle-share-their-thoughts-on-bcci-ignoring-sarfaraz-khan-for-australia-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket experts including Irfan Pathan, Harsha Bhogle share their thoughts on BCCI ignoring Sarfaraz Khan for Australia Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teams were unveiled for Team India\u2019s white-ball series against New Zealand and their first two Test matches against Australia on Friday. While Ishan Kishan was given his first Test call-up, Sarfaraz Khan, who has been scoring runs on the domestic circuit for the past few years, was once again passed over. The next month will see Australia and India play four Test matches.<\/p>\n<p>Ishan Kishan has been included in the squad as India understands Rishabh Pant to be out of the sport for quite a sometime. KS Bharat continues to be a backup wicket keeper but with Ishan Kishan\u2019s inexperience in the international Test format, KS Bharat can be the priority.<\/p>\n<p>Questions have been raised about the BCCI\u2019s choice to leave Sarfaraz Khan out of the team for the upcoming home series against New Zealand by a number of former Indian cricketers.<\/p>\n<p>Indian all-rounder Irfan Pathan tweeted \u201cRanji trophy performances should be the first criteria for test selections!\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ranji trophy performances should be the first criteria for test selections!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Irfan Pathan (@IrfanPathan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IrfanPathan\/status\/1614103471158091789?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 14, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Former India opener, Akash Chopra wrote on Twitter, \u201cThere was a bit of an opening in the Test squad\u2026was hoping that Sarfaraz will make it to the squad. He\u2019s done everything that one could do to deserve a call-up. #IndvAus.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There was a bit of an opening in the Test squad\u2026was hoping that Sarfaraz will make it to the squad. He\u2019s done everything that one could do to deserve a call-up. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IndvAus?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IndvAus<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cricketaakash\/status\/1613947678312009728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 13, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Cricket commentator Harsha Bhogle too tweeted, \u201cVery hard on Sarfaraz Khan who has literally broken the door down in first class cricket. You can\u2019t do more than he has.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Very hard on Sarfaraz Khan who has literally broken the door down in first class cricket. You can't do more than he has.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bhogleharsha\/status\/1613962109112680448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 13, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teams were unveiled for Team India\u2019s white-ball series against New Zealand and their first two Test matches against Australia on\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":28204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[605,507,301,3338],"class_list":["post-5240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-aakash-chopra","tag-harsha-bhogle","tag-irfan-pathan","tag-sarfaraz-khan"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5240","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=5240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}