{"id":63555,"date":"2019-06-12T11:24:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T11:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=63555"},"modified":"2019-06-12T11:24:57","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T11:24:57","slug":"gavaskar-pietersen-want-pant-in-if-dhawan-ruled-out-gambhir-calls-for-rayudu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/gavaskar-pietersen-want-pant-in-if-dhawan-ruled-out-gambhir-calls-for-rayudu\/","title":{"rendered":"Gavaskar, Pietersen want Pant in if Dhawan ruled out; Gambhir calls for Rayudu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sunil Gavaskar and Kevin Pietersen batted for Rishabh Pant\u2019s inclusion but Gautam Gambhir said it is Ambati Rayudu who deserves to be called in if Shikhar Dhawan is ruled out of the India\u2019s World Cup campaign due to a left thumb fracture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dhawan\u2019s World Cup was thrown into disarray owing to the thumb injury which he picked up in India\u2019s 36-run win over Australia on Sunday.The opener scored a hundred in the match, playing through pain with a swollen thumb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is set to miss the next two matches against New Zealand  and Pakistan . Possible replacements being talked about are standbys Pant and Rayudu along with India A captain Shreyas Iyer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c\u2026it has to be Rishabh Pant. He has been in cracking hot form in the IPL. He would probably want to show that he deserved to be in the team in the first place,\u201d Gavaskar told \u2018India Today\u2019 when asked about his pick for replacement if Dhawan is ruled out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut if Shikhar and the doctors say that he can be fit in the next 18 days, then I would wait for him even if it means he sits out of the England game . Shikhar has shown that his pain threshold is high,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFor your country you bear the pain, you mentally strengthen and control yourself.\u201d The view on having Pant on board, if Dhawan is ousted, was echoed by former England batsman Kevin Pietersen.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunil Gavaskar and Kevin Pietersen batted for Rishabh Pant\u2019s inclusion but Gautam Gambhir said it is Ambati Rayudu who deserves to be called in if Shikhar Dhawan is ruled out of the India\u2019s World Cup campaign due to a left thumb fracture. Dhawan\u2019s World Cup was thrown into disarray owing to the thumb injury which [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63555","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\/63555","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=63555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63557,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63555\/revisions\/63557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}