{"id":6863,"date":"2023-07-12T17:56:36","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T12:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=333166"},"modified":"2023-07-12T17:56:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T12:26:36","slug":"ind-vs-wi-yashasvi-jaiswal-to-open-shubman-gill-to-move-number-three-confirms-captain-rohit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ind-vs-wi-yashasvi-jaiswal-to-open-shubman-gill-to-move-number-three-confirms-captain-rohit\/","title":{"rendered":"IND vs WI: Yashasvi Jaiswal to open, Shubman Gill to move number three, confirms captain Rohit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India captain Rohit Sharma has provided insights ahead of the first Test against the West Indies. He clarified the batting positions, with Yashasvi Jaiswal set to open and Shubman Gill moving to the number three spot. Gill requested the middle-order position himself, believing he can perform better at number three.<\/p>\n<p>Sharma expressed satisfaction at finally having a left-handed batsman in the team and hopes Jaiswal will perform well. The bowling combination is likely to feature two spinners and three seamers, considering the venue\u2019s historical favorability towards spinners.<\/p>\n<p>Sharma acknowledged the selectors\u2019 efforts in monitoring young players and praised the inclusion of Jaiswal and Ruturaj. He emphasized the need for workload management and player rotation to keep the team fresh, with an eye on future series and the upcoming World Cup. The final bowling combination is yet to be decided.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<section class=\"cb-nws-dtl-itms\">\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\">\u201cFor the batting positions, Gill will play at No. 3. He himself has said that, he had a chat with Rahul Dravid and said that he\u2019s played his entire career at 3 and 4, and that he can perform better for the team at No. 3. And for us also it becomes better because we have a left-right opening combination. So that is what we\u2019ll try to do and hopefully this will go for a long term.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"cb-nws-dtl-itms\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India captain Rohit Sharma has provided insights ahead of the first Test against the West Indies. He clarified the batting\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":29773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[230,760],"class_list":["post-6863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-shubman-gill","tag-yashasvi-jaiswal"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6863","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=6863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}