{"id":883580,"date":"2026-09-07T19:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T19:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/883580\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T19:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T19:26:08","slug":"duleep-final-karun-nair-leaves-south-zone-squad-puts-spotlight-on-selection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/883580\/","title":{"rendered":"Duleep final: Karun Nair leaves South Zone squad, puts spotlight on selection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the addition of India Test players Devdutt Padikkal and Mohammed Siraj to the South squad for the Duleep final, their line-up is lopsided, with only one specialist opening batter in N Jagadeesan. On the eve of the final, South captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cricinfo.com\/cricketers\/tilak-varma-1170265\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tilak Varma<\/a> defended their selection, suggesting Ricky Bhui, who is the team&#8217;s vice-captain, could do the job as an opener. Bhui had also opened the batting in the semi-finals in Bengaluru, managing scores of 5 and 42.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite the addition of India Test players Devdutt Padikkal and Mohammed Siraj to the South squad for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":883581,"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-883580","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\/883580","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=883580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/883581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}