{"id":17021,"date":"2026-06-05T11:58:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T06:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/india-t20i-squad-announcement-live-updates-sweeping-changes-on-the-cards-as-shreyas-iyer-tipped-to-replace-suryakumar-yadav-as-captain\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T11:58:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T06:28:41","slug":"india-t20i-squad-announcement-live-updates-sweeping-changes-on-the-cards-as-shreyas-iyer-tipped-to-replace-suryakumar-yadav-as-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/india-t20i-squad-announcement-live-updates-sweeping-changes-on-the-cards-as-shreyas-iyer-tipped-to-replace-suryakumar-yadav-as-captain\/","title":{"rendered":"India T20I Squad Announcement Live Updates: Sweeping changes on the cards as Shreyas Iyer tipped to replace Suryakumar Yadav as captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/msid-131523213,imgsize-92786.cms\" \/><\/p>\n<div>The 31-year-old Iyer is expected to be rewarded for his impressive captaincy record in the IPL, having guided three different franchises \u2014 Delhi Capitals, Kolkata Knight Riders and Punjab Kings \u2014 to finals, winning one title. <\/p>\n<p>Iyer is also likely to slot into the No. 4 position. <\/p>\n<p>Suryakumar, despite leading India to the T20 World Cup title earlier this year, is set to lose both the captaincy and his place in the squad after a prolonged dip in form and concerns over a wrist injury.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/cricket\/india-t20i-squad-announcement-live-updates-ireland-england-series-team-india-selection-cricket-news\/liveblog\/131523213.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 31-year-old Iyer is expected to be rewarded for his impressive captaincy record in the IPL, having guided three different franchises \u2014 Delhi Capitals, Kolkata Knight Riders and Punjab Kings \u2014 to finals, winning one title. Iyer is also likely to slot into the No. 4 position. Suryakumar, despite leading India to the T20 World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}