{"id":263719,"date":"2026-09-21T13:23:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T13:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/21\/adil-rashid-ruled-out-tom-banton-to-open-as-england-announce-playing-xi-vs-sri-lanka\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T13:23:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T13:23:51","slug":"adil-rashid-ruled-out-tom-banton-to-open-as-england-announce-playing-xi-vs-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/21\/adil-rashid-ruled-out-tom-banton-to-open-as-england-announce-playing-xi-vs-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Adil Rashid ruled out, Tom Banton to open as England announce playing XI vs Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span>After whitewashing Sri Lanka national cricket team, <a href=\"https:\/\/cricketaddictor.com\/cricket-news\/jofra-archer-among-3-england-stars-to-be-rested-for-australia-t20is-464094\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the England National Cricket Team<\/a> has made some changes in their playing line-up for the first ODI match of the series, which is scheduled to be played on September 22 at the Riverside Ground in Chester-le-Street. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Ahead of the 1st of the three-match ODI series, it is confirmed that the host team is going to make two changes in their playing eleven for the One Day International format.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span>Multiple changes in England&#8217;s playing XI for the 1st ODI vs Sri Lanka<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span>According to the latest updates, which arrived on the afternoon of September 21, <\/span><span>experienced spinner Adil Rashid is set to miss the match because of a niggle. In place of Adil Rashid, there will be Rehan Ahmed to lead England&#8217;s spin attack. In another decision, the England team management is set to place another fresh pair for the opening combination. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Cricinfo&#8217;s senior sports correspondent Matt Roller, in his social media post, informed that Tom Banton will become Ben Duckett&#8217;s sixth ODI opening partner since the start of last year vs Sri Lanka in Durham tomorrow, replacing the injured Jacob Bethell. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>England&#8217;s playing XI for the 1st ODI vs Sri Lanka: Ben Duckett, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Jos Buttler, Will Jacks, Rehan Ahmed, Jamie Overton, Gus Atkinson, Jofra Archer, Josh Tongue<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>MORE TO FOLLOW&#8230;..<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cricketaddictor.com\/cricket-news\/adil-rashid-ruled-out-tom-banton-to-open-as-england-announce-playing-xi-vs-sri-lanka-464106\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After whitewashing Sri Lanka national cricket team, the England National Cricket Team has made some changes in their playing line-up for the first ODI match of the series, which is scheduled to be played on September 22 at the Riverside Ground in Chester-le-Street. Ahead of the 1st of the three-match ODI series, it is confirmed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":263720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6803],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-263719","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}