{"id":12925,"date":"2024-12-10T11:42:54","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T11:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/10\/rcb-explains-their-decision-to-opt-for-phil-salt-instead-of-du-plessis\/"},"modified":"2024-12-10T11:42:54","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T11:42:54","slug":"rcb-explains-their-decision-to-opt-for-phil-salt-instead-of-du-plessis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/10\/rcb-explains-their-decision-to-opt-for-phil-salt-instead-of-du-plessis\/","title":{"rendered":"RCB explains their decision to opt for Phil Salt instead of Du Plessis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) revealed their rationale for releasing Faf du Plessis, citing fan input favoring him as an opener and a desire for a more explosive foreign opener. Dinesh Karthik emphasized the need for a batter with a high strike rate against spin, highlighting Phil Salt&#8217;s impressive boundary percentage and run-scoring ability as key factors in their decision.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) revealed their rationale for releasing Faf du Plessis, citing fan input favoring him as an opener and a desire for a more explosive foreign opener. Dinesh Karthik emphasized the need for a batter with a high strike rate against spin, highlighting Phil Salt&#8217;s impressive boundary percentage and run-scoring ability as key&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/10\/rcb-explains-their-decision-to-opt-for-phil-salt-instead-of-du-plessis\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RCB explains their decision to opt for Phil Salt instead of Du Plessis<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}