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    "excerpt": "21st July.\u00a0 Mumbai.\u00a0He was flown in as a replacement for the injured Vijay Shankar on the insistence of the team management during the World Cup and now Mayank Agarwal is not a part of the ODI team ",
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    "editor1": "<p><strong>21st July.&nbsp; Mumbai.<\/strong>&nbsp;He was flown in as a replacement for the injured Vijay Shankar on the insistence of the team management during the World Cup and now Mayank Agarwal is not a part of the ODI team for the West Indies series. While an opener being called in for a middle-order all-rounder was no less a surprise, his exclusion for the team for the Windies series comes as a bigger shocker just when one thought the selectors would look forward to try and groom players with an eye on the 2023 World Cup.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Commenting on the whole jigsaw that saw Rishabh Pant being first called in to replace opener Shikhar Dhawan and then opener Mayank called in to replace all-rounder Vijay Shankar, chief selector M.S.K. Prasad put it on the demand of the team management and the written communication that came to them from England during the showpiece event.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;In between any series I don&#39;t do press conference and that has led to speculations. When Dhawan got injured, we already had a third opener in KL. We didn&#39;t have a left hander at top so the team management had requested for a left-hander and we had no option other than Pant. It confused many why middle-order came in for opener. Again why an opener for Vijay Shankar.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;When Shankar was injured, Rahul had a big fall at the boundary so there was a medical emergency on whether he will continue or not. At that time a written communication was given that a back-up opener was needed. That is when we went to Mayank,&quot; he explained.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>IANS had already reported during the showpiece event that it was the team management which had asked for Mayank to be flown in. &quot;If you see the record he had during the one-day series against the &lsquo;A&#39; teams, you will see that he scored 287 runs in four innings with two hundreds. Not to forget his 151 against Leicestershire in the warm-up game. That series was also played in June and July and the general thought is that he is versatile and can adapt well,&quot; the source had explained.And now, Mayank has to go back and play domestic cricket and prove his mettle.<\/p>\r\n",
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