{"id":28170,"date":"2025-07-28T07:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T07:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/28170\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T07:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T07:18:08","slug":"india-name-rishabh-pants-replacement-for-fifth-england-test-icc-world-test-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/28170\/","title":{"rendered":"India name Rishabh Pant\u2019s replacement for fifth England Test | ICC World Test Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

The injury to Pant comes as a major blow to India, with the 27-year-old having been one of their key contributors with the bat.<\/p>\n

With 479 runs at an average of 68.42, Pant is India’s third-highest run-getter in the ongoing series. This includes two centuries and three half-centuries.<\/p>\n

The left-handed batter leaves behind some pretty big shoes to fill as India look to close the five-match ICC World Test Championship<\/a> series with a win at Oval.<\/p>\n

With India having levelled the series back at Edgbaston after a loss in the opener at Trent Bridge, England notched a close win at Lord’s before a well-fought draw at Old Trafford<\/a>. This means that the Asian side can still tie the series going into the final Test at The Oval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The injury to Pant comes as a major blow to India, with the 27-year-old having been one of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[9830,7529,1721,7530,9829,17479,50,17478,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-28170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-2025-27","tag-app-stream","tag-cricket","tag-highlighted-news","tag-icc-world-test-championship","tag-mens-news","tag-news","tag-rishabh-pant-10-04-1997","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}