{"id":2148,"date":"2017-08-15T13:11:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T13:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=2148"},"modified":"2017-08-15T13:11:18","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T13:11:18","slug":"while-playing-you-dont-think-about-future-of-tests-virat-kohli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/while-playing-you-dont-think-about-future-of-tests-virat-kohli\/","title":{"rendered":"While playing, you don&#8217;t think about future of Tests: Virat Kohli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s first ever overseas whitewash came against a below-par Sri Lanka side in a lopsided series but skipper Virat Kohli doesn&#8217;t want to read into where the game&#8217;s longest format is heading.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are winning and the momentum is with the team. When playing, we don&#8217;t think (stuff like) where Test cricket is headed and what the future will be. We consider it a privilege that we are able to play Test cricket for the country. Our mindset hasn&#8217;t changed one bit till now,&#8221; the skipper said after the match.<\/p>\n<p>Kohli did agree that when both teams compete on even keel, the situation becomes better.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When both teams play very good cricket, it is a cracker of a series. But like South Africa were in England for four months, that factor they themselves admitted that it played on their minds because they didn&#8217;t go home after the Champions Trophy. I think all those factors too should be taken into account.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If any team plays very well in a series, you will get such results. When both teams play with equal intensity, the matches will be very close and so will the series,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s first ever overseas whitewash came against a below-par Sri Lanka side in a lopsided series but skipper Virat Kohli doesn&#8217;t want to read into where the game&#8217;s longest format is heading. &#8220;We are winning and the momentum is with the team. When playing, we don&#8217;t think (stuff like) where Test cricket is headed and [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2150,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions\/2150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}