{"id":780319,"date":"2026-02-21T23:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T23:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/780319\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T23:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T23:01:12","slug":"suryakumar-backs-tilak-stresses-clarity-over-concern-at-no-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/780319\/","title":{"rendered":"Suryakumar backs Tilak, stresses clarity over concern at No. 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suryakumar Yadav has thrown his weight behind Tilak Varma, outlining the clarity around the No. 3&#8217;s role despite a modest run in this World Cup. Scores of 25, 25, 25 and 31 have not quite matched the expectations attached to both that position and Tilak&#8217;s pedigree. His overall strike rate, too, has lacked bite &#8211; apart from the opening game against the USA, when he struck at over 150, he has operated in the 104-115 range. More crucially, a few of his dismissals have come just when the innings demanded acceleration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Suryakumar Yadav has thrown his weight behind Tilak Varma, outlining the clarity around the No. 3&#8217;s role despite&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[227710,1406,192480,730,79,227711,22959,6669,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-780319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-43rd-match","9":"tag-cricket","10":"tag-icc-mens-t20-world-cup-2026","11":"tag-india","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-super-8-group-1-x1-v-x4","14":"tag-suryakumar-yadav","15":"tag-tilak-varma","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116111113199794227","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780319","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=780319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}