{"id":346763,"date":"2025-12-14T04:28:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T04:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/346763\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T04:28:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T04:28:22","slug":"varma-backs-indias-flexible-batting-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/346763\/","title":{"rendered":"Varma backs India\u2019s flexible batting approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Addressing questions surrounding India\u2019s batting approach ahead of the third T20I, middle-order batter Tilak Varma, who had scored a valiant knock of 62 in the loss, stressed on the importance of situational awareness and clarity within the side.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone is flexible, except openers. I\u2019m up for batting at 3, 4, 5, or 6, wherever I get a chance. Everyone knows that everyone is flexible in [the batting] order.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old has primarily batted at number three or number four for India, where he has found great success. Both his centuries in T20Is were from the number three position against South Africa in November last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Addressing questions surrounding India\u2019s batting approach ahead of the third T20I, middle-order batter Tilak Varma, who had scored&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,95832,95830,95836,95846,95842,95845,95843,1950,95844,95841,95847,95853,95852,95833,7301,95851,95835,95834,90626,95839,95840,95849,85,95848,95850,95838,95831,95837],"class_list":["post-346763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-breaking-news","tag-cricket-headlines-today","tag-cricket-live-score","tag-cricket-match-highlights-today","tag-cricket-match-live-streaming-score","tag-cricket-match-result-today","tag-cricket-match-today-live","tag-cricket-news","tag-cricket-results-today","tag-cricket-scorecard-live","tag-cricket-series-updates","tag-cricket-world-cup-live-score","tag-cricket-world-cup-news","tag-cricket-world-news","tag-icc","tag-icc-cricket-updates","tag-international-cricket-live-score","tag-international-cricket-news","tag-latest-cricket-news","tag-latest-cricket-scores","tag-live-cricket-match-update","tag-odi-cricket-live-score","tag-sports","tag-t20-cricket-live-score","tag-test-cricket-live-score","tag-today-cricket-live-score","tag-today-cricket-news-update","tag-todays-cricket-match-score"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}