{"id":45092,"date":"2025-08-05T10:24:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T10:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/45092\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T10:24:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T10:24:12","slug":"chak-de-india-shashi-tharoor-points-out-holes-in-indian-team-bats-for-sarfaraz-khans-inclusion-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/45092\/","title":{"rendered":"Chak De India! Shashi Tharoor points out holes in Indian team, bats for Sarfaraz Khan’s inclusion | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ChakShashi Tharoor (left) and Sarfaraz Khan (AP | PTI) A day after apologising to Team India<\/a> for doubting their chances following their series-levelling six-run victory against England in the fifth and final Test at The Oval in London, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor<\/a> has highlighted key takeaways from the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy while also pointing out areas of concern in the Shubman Gill-led team.Tharoor wrote on X: “Takeaways for #TeamIndia after #INDvsENG: Gill\u2019s batting; Siraj\u2019s bowling; Jaiswal\u2019s flowering; Rahul\u2019s steadiness; Pant\u2019s brilliance; Washington\u2019s versatility; Jadeja\u2019s reliability; Prasidh\u2019s & Akash Deep\u2019s improvement.”<\/p>\n

Bowled Over by Miya Magic: Mohammed Siraj shines brightest | IND vs ENG 5th Test<\/p>\n

In the same tweet, Tharoor also addressed what Team India needs to work on going forward: “Still need to find: A strong middle-order bat capable of taking the fight to the opposition: remember @sarfarazkhan977? More pace-bowling backups for @Jaspritbumrah93; and a fast-bowling all-rounder in the @hardikpandya7 mould (but with the gumption to face the rigours of Test cricket). Chak De India! @BCCI @GautamGambhir”Siraj\u2019s remarkable nine-wicket match haul earned him the Player of the Match award, stepping up in the absence of regular pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah<\/a>, who was rested for workload management.The match reached a thrilling conclusion with England needing just 35 runs with four wickets remaining at the start of play, but Siraj\u2019s exceptional bowling\u2014supported by Prasidh Krishna\u2014sealed the win for India.\u201cWords fail me\u2026 WHAT A WIN! Absolutely exhilarated & ecstatic for Team India on their series-clinching victory against England! The grit, determination, and passion on display were simply incredible. This team is special,\u201d Tharoor posted on X.\u201cI am sorry that I expressed a spasm of doubt about the outcome yesterday. But @mdsirajofficial never stopped believing! Shabash to our heroes\u203c\ufe0f\u201d he added.Tharoor had previously expressed concerns about the match’s outcome on Sunday, reminiscing about former player Virat Kohli<\/a>‘s contributions to the team.\u201cI\u2019ve been missing @imVkohli a few times during this series, but never as much as in this Test match. His grit and intensity, his inspirational presence in the field, not to mention his abundant batting skills, might have led to a different outcome. Is it too late to call him out of retirement? Virat, the nation needs you!\u201d Tharoor had written.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shashi Tharoor (left) and Sarfaraz Khan (AP | PTI) A day after apologising to Team India for doubting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,39311,740,19329,10010,13070,39310,85,32652,1211,2131],"class_list":{"0":"post-45092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-chak-de-india","11":"tag-cricket","12":"tag-indian-cricket-team","13":"tag-jasprit-bumrah","14":"tag-sarfaraz-khan","15":"tag-shashi-tharoor","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-team-india","18":"tag-test-cricket","19":"tag-virat-kohli"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45092","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=45092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}