{"id":18911,"date":"2021-01-06T16:24:45","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T17:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=18911"},"modified":"2021-01-06T18:15:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T18:15:40","slug":"rohit-sharma-to-open-as-india-announce-playing-xi-for-third-australia-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=18911","title":{"rendered":"Rohit Sharma to open as India announce playing XI for third Australia Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Rohit-Sharma.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Sydney:\u00a0Senior batsman Rohit Sharma will replace Mayank Agarwal and will open the innings for India with Shubman Gill in the third Test against Australia at Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>India announced their playing XI earlier today. Pacer Navdeep Saini will debut as the third seamer, replacing injured Umesh Yadav.<\/p>\n<p>Sharma is coming back from a hamstring injury and was also in 14 days&#8217; quarantine on arrival in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are all really excited to have him (Sharma) back in the team, especially with his experience at the highest level, which matters a lot,&#8221; said skipper Ajinkya Rahane.<\/p>\n<p>Note, Australia won the first Test by eight wickets with India bouncing back in Melbourne to level the series with their own eight-wicket win.<\/p>\n<p><strong>India:<\/strong> Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Hanuma Vihari, Rishabh Pant, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravi Ashwin, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammad Siraj, Navdeep Saini<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/always-excited-take-rohit-wicket-amir\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018Always excited to take Rohit Sharma\u2019s wicket\u2019 Mohammad Amir<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Sydney:\u00a0Senior batsman Rohit Sharma will replace Mayank Agarwal and will open the innings for India with Shubman Gill in the third Test against Australia at <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=18911\" title=\"Rohit Sharma to open as India announce playing XI for third Australia Test\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18911"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18913,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18911\/revisions\/18913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}