{"id":659906,"date":"2023-12-08T18:12:12","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T22:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/?p=659906"},"modified":"2023-12-08T18:12:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T22:12:12","slug":"indias-playing-eleven-could-be-like-this-in-the-first-t20-against-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/659906\/","title":{"rendered":"India’s playing eleven could be like this in the first T20 against South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Choosing the playing eleven in view of the first T20 International match against South Africa is going to be a big headache for Indian captain Suryakumar Yadav.\u00a0Suryakumar Yadav will captain India in the three-match T20 International series against South Africa.\u00a0Recently, under the captaincy of Suryakumar Yadav, India did a great job and won the five-match T20 International series against Australia by 4-1.\u00a0Team India now wants to repeat the same feat in the T20 International series against South Africa.\u00a0The first match of the 3-match T20 series between India and South Africa will be played on December 10 at the Kingsmead Stadium in Durban.\u00a0Let’s take a look with which playing eleven India enters the first T20. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

opening combination\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Yashasvi Jaiswal and Ruturaj Gaikwad can be fielded for opening in the first T20 International match against South Africa.\u00a0Both these batsmen are expert in scoring runs in the first 6 overs.\u00a0Yashasvi Jaiswal and Ruturaj Gaikwad are adept at turning matches even in a few balls. Yashasvi Jaiswal recently scored 138 runs at an average of 27.60 in five T20 matches against Australia.\u00a0Ruturaj Gaikwad had scored 223 runs in five T20 matches against Australia at an average of 55.75.<\/span><\/p>\n

middle order\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Shreyas Iyer can bat at number 3 in the first T20 International match against South Africa.\u00a0Captain Suryakumar Yadav can come out to bat at number 4.\u00a0Finisher Rinku Singh is sure to get a chance at number 5.\u00a0Wicketkeeper batsman Jitesh Sharma will play at number 6.\u00a0This means that Shubman Gill, Tilak Verma and Ishan Kishan do not get a place in the batting order.<\/span><\/p>\n

allrounder<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

All-rounder Ravindra Jadeja is sure to get a chance at the number 7 batting position in the first T20 International match against South Africa.\u00a0Ravindra Jadeja is the vice-captain of India in this T20 series.\u00a0Ravindra Jadeja will strengthen Team India in batting along with spin bowling.\u00a0In such a situation, Washington Sundar will have to sit out of the playing eleven.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Spin and fast bowling department<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Leg spinner Ravi Bishnoi can be included in the spin bowling department.\u00a0In such a situation, Chinaman bowler Kuldeep Yadav will have to sit out of the playing eleven.\u00a0In the first T20 International match against South Africa, captain Suryakumar Yadav will give opportunity to Deepak Chahar, Mohammad Siraj and Mukesh Kumar among the fast bowlers.\u00a0Captain Suryakumar Yadav can keep fast bowler Arshdeep Singh out of the playing eleven.<\/span><\/p>\n

Probable playing eleven for the first T20 International match against South Africa-<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Yashasvi Jaiswal, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shreyas Iyer, Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Rinku Singh, Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Ravindra Jadeja (vice-captain), Ravi Bishnoi, Mohammad Siraj, Mukesh Kumar, Deepak Chahar.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Choosing the playing eleven in view of the first T20 International match against South Africa is going to be a big headache for Indian captain Suryakumar Yadav.\u00a0Suryakumar Yadav will captain India in the three-match T20 International series against South Africa.\u00a0Recently, under the captaincy of Suryakumar Yadav, India did a great job and won the five-match T20 International series against Australia by 4-1.\u00a0Team India now wants to repeat the same feat in the T20 International series against South Africa.\u00a0The first match of the 3-match T20 series between India and South Africa…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":659907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47741],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":659908,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659906\/revisions\/659908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}