Ambati Rayudu was a surprise exclusion from the Indian cricket team as the squad for the ICC\u2009World Cup 2019 was announced on Monday. The Chennai\u2009Super Kings batsman was left out and in his place, all-rounder Vijay Shankar was preferred as the one who will be batting at the No. 4 position for the national side.
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Speaking on the inclusion of \nShankar ahead of Rayudu, chief selector MSK Prasad said that Rayudu got \nan extended rope, but they went ahead with Shankar as he can be a \nthree-dimensional player in the World Cup.\u201cAfter the Champions Trophy we\n have tried quite a few middle-order batsmen, which also included \nKarthik, Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey. We did give a few more chances to \nRayudu but Vijay Shankar gives three dimensions. He can bat, if the \nconditions are overcast he can bowl, plus he is a fielder. We are \nlooking at Vijay Shankar as a No. 4. Now we have plenty of options for \nthat slot,\u201d MSK\u2009Prasad said after the squad was announced.
Former\n India cricketer Gautam Gambhir feels that Rayudu\u2019s exclusion from the \nWorld Cup squad is more \u2018heartbreaking\u2019 than any other selection \ndecision. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ambati Rayudu was a surprise exclusion from the Indian cricket team as the squad for the ICC\u2009World Cup 2019 was announced on Monday. The Chennai\u2009Super Kings batsman was left out and in his place, all-rounder Vijay Shankar was preferred as the one who will be batting at the No. 4 position for the national side. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59313","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\/59313","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=59313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59315,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59313\/revisions\/59315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}