{"id":32834,"date":"2018-06-02T11:39:37","date_gmt":"2018-06-02T11:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=32834"},"modified":"2018-06-02T11:39:37","modified_gmt":"2018-06-02T11:39:37","slug":"dinesh-karthik-in-line-to-replace-injured-wriddhiman-saha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/dinesh-karthik-in-line-to-replace-injured-wriddhiman-saha\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinesh Karthik in line to replace injured Wriddhiman Saha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dinesh Karthik is likely to get a shot at Test redemption &#8212; as a replacement for the injured wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha &#8212; for the one-off historic encounter against Afghanistan in Bengaluru from June 14.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources close to the selection committee, MSK Prasad and Co are looking at the England tour, where Karthik could make the cut in the longest format also.<\/p>\n<p>Saha, who is currently in a race against time to be fit for the Afghanistan Test which begins June 14, currently is suffering with a thumb injury.<\/p>\n<p>Saha is the only recognised stumper in India&#8217;s squad for the five-day affair in Bengaluru starting June 14. If the Bengal keeper fails to recover in time for the game, Dinesh Karthik or Parthiv Patel might get a look in.<\/p>\n<p>It must be mentioned that Karthik was a surprise success when he played Test cricket in England in 2007. He had three half-centuries &#8212; 60 at Lord&#8217;s, 77 at Nottingham and 91 at the Oval.<\/p>\n<p>Karthik had last played a Test match way back in 2010 against Bangladesh but has had a prolific first-class record with 27 hundreds and over 9000 runs. In 23 Tests for India, he has scored 1000 runs with a hundred and seven half-centuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dinesh Karthik is likely to get a shot at Test redemption &#8212; as a replacement for the injured wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha &#8212; for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32836,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32834\/revisions\/32836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}