{"id":313458,"date":"2019-06-19T11:48:19","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T11:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=313458"},"modified":"2019-06-19T11:48:19","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T11:48:19","slug":"shikhar-dhawan-ruled-out-of-world-cup-due-to-thumb-fracture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/shikhar-dhawan-ruled-out-of-world-cup-due-to-thumb-fracture\/","title":{"rendered":"Shikhar Dhawan ruled out of World Cup due to thumb fracture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-313459 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/shikhar-dhawan-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/shikhar-dhawan-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/shikhar-dhawan-696x413.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/shikhar-dhawan.jpg 707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Indian opener Shikhar Dhawan, who fractured his left thumb while playing against Australia has been ruled out of the 2019 World Cup.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to sources, Dhawan is not in a position to recover in time for the remaining games.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">BCCI said in a tweet, \u201cShikhar Dhawan has been diagnosed with a fracture of the first metacarpal on his left hand following a ball impact injury during the team\u2019s first match versus Australia at the Oval on 5th June 2019.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cFollowing several specialist opinions, he will remain in a cast until the middle of July and therefore will not be available for the remainder of #CWC19,\u201d BCCI added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rishabh Pant who has been included in the India squad is currently in England with the team and has been named as the official replacement in the squad, sources said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Shikhar Dhawan who scored 117 off 109 balls against Australia on June 5 had been hit on his left thumb during the match. He didn\u2019t take the field due to the injury and Ravindra Jadeja fielded in his place.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian opener Shikhar Dhawan, who fractured his left thumb while playing against Australia has been ruled out of the 2019 World Cup. According to sources, Dhawan is not in a position to recover in time for the remaining games. BCCI said in a tweet, \u201cShikhar Dhawan has been diagnosed with a fracture of the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":313459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[8560,11518],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313460,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313458\/revisions\/313460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/313459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}