{"id":23525,"date":"2020-06-05T19:14:45","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T13:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/?p=23525"},"modified":"2020-06-05T19:14:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T13:44:45","slug":"dont-want-to-remain-as-limited-over-format-player-sam-billings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/dont-want-to-remain-as-limited-over-format-player-sam-billings\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t want to be \u2018pigeon-holed\u2019 as a white ball cricketer: Sam Billings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sam Billings, England Wicket keeper batsman, recently expressed his desire to play the longest format of the game and doesn\u2019t want to be classified as \u2018limited over format\u2019 player.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>According to a report published in <em>PTI<\/em>, the cricketer said it\u2019s his mistake only that he hadn\u2019t been considered for the Test squad cited playing IPL in early stage of career as a reason.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no one else to blame apart from me really for that (white-ball typecasting),&#8221; <em>PTI <\/em>quoted Billings as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">IPL changed my mindset<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Speaking about getting \u2018pigeon-holed\u2019 as a white ball cricketer, Sam Billings said playing <a href=\"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/?s=IPL+\" class=\"rank-math-link\">IPL <\/a>at early stages of his career could be a reason since the strategy of playing in the cash rich league to develop his skill a bit \u2018backfired\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/Dae1irCV4AEBlsX?format=jpg&amp;name=large\" alt=\"Sam Billings feels playing IPL early in the career has a bit \u2018backfired\u2019.  (Credits: Twitter\/ Suresh Raina)\"\/><figcaption>Sam Billings feels playing IPL early in the career has a bit \u2018backfired\u2019.  (Credits: Twitter\/ Suresh Raina)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&#8220;Obviously four-day cricket had to take a back seat at that point in time (IPL days) and I just didn&#8217;t play anywhere near enough cricket. That&#8217;s where my mindset has changed a little bit.&#8221;  England\u2019s wicket-keeper batsman said during a discussion with ESPNcricinfo.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Opportunities in Test side<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Billings, who has played 15 ODIs and 26 T20Is for the England side, has set his eyes on the Test squad since he feels there are exciting opportunities in the Test squad up for grab.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I think there are opportunities in the Test team as well, especially as a batter and also in the wicket-keeping position. I find that really exciting. I don&#8217;t want to just be pigeon-holed as a white-ball player. I&#8217;m better than that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Sam Billings who couldn\u2019t make it to the World Cup squad after sustaining a shoulder injury said playing test cricket is a big goal for him and he is eying a spot there in the team.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I want to play Test cricket. That is a big goal of mine,&#8221; Billings added.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background has-text-align-center has-very-light-gray-background-color\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kyrosports\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Follow us on facebook for more sports news &amp; updates (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"rank-math-link\">Follow us on facebook for more sports news &amp; updates<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Billings, England Wicket keeper batsman, recently expressed his desire to play the longest format of the game and doesn\u2019t want to be classified as \u2018limited over format\u2019 player. According to a report published in PTI, the cricketer said it\u2019s his mistake only that he hadn\u2019t been considered for the Test squad cited playing IPL [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":23568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,693,37,91,4845],"tags":[2716,402],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23525"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}