{"id":4836,"date":"2026-10-24T09:01:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T09:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/?p=4836"},"modified":"2026-10-24T09:01:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T09:01:02","slug":"15-year-old-vaibhav-suryavanshi-set-to-replace-injured-kishan-in-christchurch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/24\/15-year-old-vaibhav-suryavanshi-set-to-replace-injured-kishan-in-christchurch\/","title":{"rendered":"15-Year-Old Vaibhav Suryavanshi Set to Replace Injured Kishan in Christchurch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Indian cricket team wicketkeeper-batsman Ishan Kishan is likely to miss the second T20 match against New Zealand due to injury. The match will be held on Saturday at Hagley Oval, Christchurch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Indian team batting coach Sitanshu Kotak, the main reason Ishan batted at number 5 instead of his usual number 3 position in the first T20 match was this injury. The coach said the player has not fully recovered and chances of him playing in tomorrow&#8217;s match are very slim. He will be kept out of the team until the medical team advises otherwise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If Ishan Kishan is unable to play, young batsman Vaibhav Suryavanshi is fully expected to take his place. 15-year-old Vaibhav has already scored 246 runs at an aggressive strike rate of 186.36 in his first 8 T20 matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is worth mentioning that in the first T20 match, India successfully chased down a huge target of 226 runs against New Zealand with 4 wickets in hand. For the team, Sanju Samson scored 65 runs off 33 balls, Shreyas Iyer scored 42 runs and Amanpreet scored an unbeaten 42 runs, playing a crucial role in giving the team a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian cricket team wicketkeeper-batsman Ishan Kishan is likely to miss the second T20 match against&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4838,"href":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4836\/revisions\/4838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theimphalreporter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}