{"id":360402,"date":"2025-12-20T12:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T12:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/360402\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T12:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T12:25:07","slug":"shubman-gill-dropped-by-india-from-t20-world-cup-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/360402\/","title":{"rendered":"Shubman Gill dropped by India from T20 World Cup squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">India have dropped Test and one-day international captain Shubman Gill from their 15-man squad for the men&#8217;s T20 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 26-year-old&#8217;s omission follows him scoring 291 in his 15 T20 matches in 2025, with India&#8217;s chief selector Ajit Agarkar saying the batter was &#8220;short of runs at the moment&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gill missed the T20 international against South Africa on Friday as India won the match to claim a 3-1 series victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Suryakumar Yadav scored five runs in that game and, despite his tally of 218 runs in his 19 T20 outings this year, he retained the captaincy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We have full faith in our captain to deliver during the World Cup,&#8221; said Agarkar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Suryakumar said: &#8220;I know what to do. I have time to fix it. We will definitely see Surya the batter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">India, who are defending champions, will host the T20 World Cup with Sri Lanka from 7 February to 8 March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">India are in the same group as Namibia, Netherlands, Pakistan and USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India have dropped Test and one-day international captain Shubman Gill from their 15-man squad for the men&#8217;s T20&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-360402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360402","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=360402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}