{"id":34185,"date":"2026-07-12T05:51:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T00:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/vaibhav-sooryavanshi-dropped-sanju-samson-returns-as-india-opt-to-bowl-in-5th-t20i-cricket-news\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T05:51:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T00:21:02","slug":"vaibhav-sooryavanshi-dropped-sanju-samson-returns-as-india-opt-to-bowl-in-5th-t20i-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/vaibhav-sooryavanshi-dropped-sanju-samson-returns-as-india-opt-to-bowl-in-5th-t20i-cricket-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaibhav Sooryavanshi dropped, Sanju Samson returns as India opt to bowl in 5th T20I | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-132332287,imgsize-26590,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/132332287.jpg\" alt=\"Vaibhav Sooryavanshi dropped, Sanju Samson returns as India opt to bowl in 5th T20I\" title=\"Sanju Samson back in playing XI (Image: BCCI)\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"Sanju Samson back in playing XI (Image: BCCI)\">Sanju Samson back in playing XI (Image: BCCI)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>India captain <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/shreyas-iyer\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Shreyas Iyer<\/a> won the toss and elected to bowl first against England in the fifth and final T20I at Southampton on Sunday, making two changes to the playing XI.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"3\"\/>Suryansh Shedge replaced Washington Sundar, while Sanju Samson returned to the side in place of Vaibhav Sooryavanshi.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>Explaining the decision at the toss, Iyer said the team opted to chase after assessing the conditions.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/>&#8220;We&#8217;re going to bowl first. Based on the bowling we&#8217;ve done over the last couple of matches, we&#8217;ve experienced almost everything. It&#8217;s a bit windy and we were told the wicket won&#8217;t change much, so we decided to bowl first,&#8221; Shreyas Iyer said during the toss. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/>&#8220;I just want the boys to give 100 percent effort irrespective of the result. <!-- -->Stay in the moment, relax and try to get the best out of yourselves,&#8221; Iyer added. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"15\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"17\"\/>England captain <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/cricket\/player-profile\/harry-brook\/66374\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Harry Brook<\/a>, whose side leads the five-match series 3-1, said a victory would take his team to the top of the ICC T20I rankings.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"21\"\/>&#8220;If we win today, we go to world No. 1, so that&#8217;s definitely a prize we&#8217;re eyeing. We&#8217;ve adapted well throughout the series and want to finish strongly,&#8221; Brook Said. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"24\"\/>Brook also hailed veteran leg-spinner <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/cricket\/player-profile\/adil-rashid\/4661\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Adil Rashid<\/a>, who is making his 150th T20I appearance for England. They have one change in the team, Liam Dawson&#8217;s back in for Rehan Ahmed. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"29\"\/>&#8221;He&#8217;s been around for a long time now. He&#8217;s a very valuable player for us. And his skill and guile that he has and ability to outfox players is phenomenal. And it&#8217;s awesome to have him inside. &#8221; Brook said for Adil Rashid. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"31\"\/><\/p>\n<p><h3>Playing XIs<br \/><\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"33\"\/><span class=\"strong\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">India:<\/span> Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson, Ishan Kishan (wk), Shreyas Iyer (c), Tilak Varma, Shivam Dube, Suryansh Shedge, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Prince Yadav, Prasidh Krishna.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"36\"\/><span class=\"strong\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">England:<\/span> Philip Salt, Jos Buttler (wk), Harry Brook (c), Jacob Bethell, Tom Banton, Sam Curran, Will Jacks, Liam Dawson, Jofra Archer, Adil Rashid, Josh Tongue. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"39\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/cricket\/india-tour-of-england\/vaibhav-sooryavanshi-dropped-sanju-samson-returns-as-india-opt-to-bowl-in-5th-t20i\/articleshow\/132332253.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sanju Samson back in playing XI (Image: BCCI) India captain Shreyas Iyer won the toss and elected to bowl first against England in the fifth and final T20I at Southampton on Sunday, making two changes to the playing XI.Suryansh Shedge replaced Washington Sundar, while Sanju Samson returned to the side in place of Vaibhav Sooryavanshi.Explaining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34185","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\/34185","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=34185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}