{"id":63667,"date":"2019-06-11T15:11:40","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T09:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=63667"},"modified":"2019-06-11T15:59:08","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T10:29:08","slug":"shikhar-dhawan-ruled-icc-world-cup-2019-three-weeks-due-fractured-thumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/sports-news\/shikhar-dhawan-ruled-icc-world-cup-2019-three-weeks-due-fractured-thumb\/","title":{"rendered":"Shikhar Dhawan ruled out of ICC World Cup 2019 for three weeks due to fractured thumb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Shikhar Dhawan has been ruled out of the 2019 Cricket World Cup for 3 weeks with a fractured thumb. He had been hit on his left thumb during India\u2019s match against defending champions Australia at The Oval on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Dhawan had sustained the injury on Sunday but went on to score a match-winning 117 against Australia. He had gone for a scan on Monday and the report reveals he has a fracture.<\/p>\n<p>Shikhar Dhawan will therefore, not be able to play India\u2019s upcoming matches against New Zealand, Pakistan, Afghanistan, West Indies and England &#8211; all these matches are scheduled to be played in June.<\/p>\n<p>Shikhar Dhawan is a key player for India in ICC tournaments where he has 6 hundreds. In the 2015 World Cup, Dhawan had scored 2 hundreds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/art-and-culture-news\/cinema\/breaking-newscast-bollywood\/amitabh-bachchans-twitter-account-hacked-profile-pic-changed-pak-pm-imran-khan-63639\">Amitabh Bachchan\u2019s twitter account hacked, Profile pic changed to Pak PM Imran Khan<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 2019, after a poor start against South Africa, Dhawan smashed 117 to set up a 36-run win for India.<\/p>\n<p>Shikhar Dhawan was named man-of-the-match for his sterling innings and his injury is a huge blow to India who are hot favourites to win the World Cup this year.<\/p>\n<p>In this scenario, KL Rahul is most likely to open with Rohit Sharma with Dinesh Karthik or Vijay Shankar likely to slot in the middle order.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/art-and-culture-news\/cinema\/esha-deol-bharat-takhtani-welcome-baby-girl-name-miraya-63649\">Esha Deol and Bharat Takhtani welcome their baby girl, name her Miraya<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to sources, Shikhar Dhawan\u2019s possible replacement in England could either be Shreyas Iyer or Rishabh Pant.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Shikhar Dhawan has been ruled out of the 2019 Cricket World Cup for 3 weeks with a fractured thumb. He had been hit on his left thumb during India\u2019s match against defending champions Australia at The Oval on Sunday. Dhawan had sustained the injury on Sunday but went on to score a match-winning 117 against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":63669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[2994,74198,74448,74447,15426,21,3366,31482,30723,74449],"yst_prominent_words":[74444,23492,21926,22313,31469,52236,3704,5313,42923,74446,41111,74443,31481,5981,74445,35308,20829,12339],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2019\/06\/11150941\/Shikhar-Dhawan.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63667"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=63667"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=63667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->