{"id":228274,"date":"2025-07-01T03:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T03:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/228274\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T03:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T03:39:11","slug":"shastris-advice-for-india-ahead-of-birmingham-test-showdown-icc-world-test-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/228274\/","title":{"rendered":"Shastri&#8217;s advice for India ahead of Birmingham Test showdown | ICC World Test Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Questions still remain whether pace spearhead <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/news\/india-assistant-provides-team-update-ahead-of-second-test\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jasprit Bumrah will be risked by India for the second Test<\/a> as his workload continues to be managed, while the team are also tossing up whether to include a second spinner in their line-up to help first-choice tweaker Ravindra Jadeja.<\/p>\n<p>But Shastri is not too concerned by team selection and instead wants his former side to concentrate on playing positive cricket with good intent during the crucial Edgbaston contest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The most important thing for India is to throw the counter punch almost immediately,&#8221; Shastri told The ICC Review.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you lose a Test match like this where you have dominated most of it and then you lose it on the last day with a big chase and full marks to England for keeping their composure and doing that, it will need a lot of character to come to the fore and to bounce back in the series.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now, whether Bumrah plays or doesn&#8217;t play, one doesn&#8217;t know. But let&#8217;s hope he does because this is a very important Test match and all is not lost.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s just you take it one game at a time. It&#8217;s a five-match series and India will be hoping to bounce back.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Questions still remain whether pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah will be risked by India for the second Test as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[15034,855,748,393,4884,15036,68584,12,28773,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-228274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-app-stream","9":"tag-birmingham","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-highlighted-news","14":"tag-icc-world-test-championship","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-ravi-shastri-05-27-1962","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114775901029689099","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}