{"id":83818,"date":"2026-01-04T10:35:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T10:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/04\/only-after-kohli-and-rohit-retire-ashwin-makes-bold-gaikwad-claim\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T10:35:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T10:35:43","slug":"only-after-kohli-and-rohit-retire-ashwin-makes-bold-gaikwad-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/04\/only-after-kohli-and-rohit-retire-ashwin-makes-bold-gaikwad-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Only after Kohli and Rohit retire&#8217;: Ashwin makes bold Gaikwad claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ruturaj Gaikwad was left out of India\u2019s ODI squad for the New Zealand series despite scoring a century against South Africa. Selectors chose Rishabh Pant instead, mainly due to his left-handed option. Ravichandran Ashwin questioned the decision, praised Ruturaj\u2019s batting ability, and admitted opportunities may remain limited until senior players retire.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruturaj Gaikwad was left out of India\u2019s ODI squad for the New Zealand series despite scoring a century against South Africa. Selectors chose Rishabh Pant instead, mainly due to his left-handed option. Ravichandran Ashwin questioned the decision, praised Ruturaj\u2019s batting ability, and admitted opportunities may remain limited until senior players retire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":83819,"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\/83818"}],"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=83818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}