{"id":3208,"date":"2019-05-21T08:06:28","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T08:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=3208"},"modified":"2019-05-21T08:09:03","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T08:09:03","slug":"jadhav-fit-no-changes-to-indian-world-cup-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=3208","title":{"rendered":"Jadhav fit, no changes to Indian World Cup squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New Delhi, <\/strong>\u00a0In a piece of good news for Indian cricket fans, all-rounder Kedar Jadhav, has been declared fit, ensuring no changes will be made to the 15-member India squad for the upcoming 50-over World Cup which starts in England and Wales on May 30.<\/p>\n<p>Jadhav had sustained a shoulder injury during the recently concluded Indian Premier League (IPL).<\/p>\n<p>According to a report in ESPNcricinfo, India team physiotherapist Patrick Farhart gave a final nod about Jadhav&#8217;s fitness to the selectors a few days ago.<\/p>\n<p>The selectors eventually made up their minds after they were told that the 34-year-old was also batting in the nets without any pain in his injured shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have got the medical certificate declaring Jadhav is fit to play in the World Cup. He will travel to the UK with the rest of the squad on Wednesday,&#8221; chief selector MSK Prasad told CricketNext on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We received the fitness certificate from Farhart on Monday and we are satisfied with the report. Jadhav should be available for India&#8217;s first game against South Africa,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The International Cricket Committee (ICC) rules regarding the World Cup permit changes in the 15-member preliminary squad till May 23.<\/p>\n<p>Jadhav had injured his left shoulder while trying to save four overthrows in a Chennai Super Kings&#8217; (CSK) match against Kings XI Punjab in Mohali on May 5, exactly a month before India&#8217;s first match in the World Cup against South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>He had left the field immediately, and was then ruled out of the rest of the IPL season.<\/p>\n<p>However, the BCCI selectors didn&#8217;t rush into naming a replacement for Jadhav, given the time they had for his full recovery. Had Jadhav failed to recover, the selection panel would have picked a replacement from the five standbys: Rishabh Pant, Ambati Rayudu, Ishant Sharma, Axar Patel and Navdeep Saini.<\/p>\n<p>India will open its World Cup campaign against South Africa on June 5 in Southampton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, \u00a0In a piece of good news for Indian cricket fans, all-rounder Kedar Jadhav, has been declared fit, ensuring no changes will be made to the 15-member India squad for the upcoming 50-over World Cup which starts in England and Wales on May 30. Jadhav had sustained a shoulder injury during the recently concluded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sport"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3210,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208\/revisions\/3210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}