{"id":715425,"date":"2026-06-04T20:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T20:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/715425\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T20:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T20:15:08","slug":"ks-bharat-announces-retirement-from-international-cricket-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/715425\/","title":{"rendered":"KS Bharat announces retirement from international cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bharat scored 221 runs in 12 innings at an average of 20.09 to go with 19 dismissals as a keeper. He made his debut in the 2023 Border-Gavaskar Trophy after impressing for India A. He made his highest score of 44 against an Australia attack that included Mitchell Starc and Nathan Lyon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/series\/australia-in-india-2022-23-1348637\/india-vs-australia-4th-test-1348655\/full-scorecard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in Ahmedabad<\/a> in 2023. He was also picked as India&#8217;s keeper-batter in the 2023 World Test Championship (WTC) final against Australia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/series\/icc-world-test-championship-2021-2023-1268315\/australia-vs-india-final-1358412\/full-scorecard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">at The Oval<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bharat scored 221 runs in 12 innings at an average of 20.09 to go with 19 dismissals as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,203020,740,12063,43,44,145550,85],"class_list":["post-715425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bulletin","tag-cricket","tag-daily","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-package","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715425","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=715425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}