{"id":5583,"date":"2023-02-27T13:38:20","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T08:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=283765"},"modified":"2023-02-27T13:38:20","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T08:08:20","slug":"this-ranji-trophy-performer-can-replace-indian-cricketer-kl-rahul-for-test-format","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/this-ranji-trophy-performer-can-replace-indian-cricketer-kl-rahul-for-test-format\/","title":{"rendered":"This Ranji Trophy performer can replace Indian cricketer KL Rahul for Test format"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KL Rahul was recently snubbed as the Indian team\u2019s vice-captain following a string of poor performances in the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2023. Despite India\u2019s victories in both Tests, the right-handed batsman managed only 38 runs in three innings and was out for low scores.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the future scope of preparing a positive substitution for KL Rahul who after being dropped as a Vice Captain and getting demoted as \u201cbackup\u201d wicket-keeper, he can be replaced soon.<\/p>\n<p>For the the red-ball cricket Sheldon Jackson is another player who deserves to be the long-term replacement for KL Rahul. Jackson plays domestic cricket for Saurashtra. The team recently defeated Bengal in the Ranji Trophy 2022-23 final. Jackson, the Saurashtra wicketkeeper, was a standout performer in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>In 15 innings, he scored 588 runs, including a century and four half-centuries. His career high was 160 runs. He is a member of the Kolkata Knight Riders in the IPL. Last season, Jackson stole the show with his quick work behind the stumps.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">India\u2019s Test squad for third and fourth Test against Australia<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">: Rohit Sharma (Captain), K L Rahul, Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli,\u00a0<\/span>KS Bharat (wk),\u00a0Ishan Kishan (wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, Axar Patel,\u00a0Kuldeep Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja,\u00a0Mohd. Shami, Mohd. Siraj,\u00a0Shreyas Iyer, Suryakumar Yadav, Umesh Yadav,\u00a0Jaydev Unadkat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KL Rahul was recently snubbed as the Indian team\u2019s vice-captain following a string of poor performances in the ongoing Border-Gavaskar\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":28525,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[608,1056],"class_list":["post-5583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-kl-rahul","tag-ranji-trophy"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5583","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=5583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}