{"id":37226,"date":"2018-07-25T11:43:43","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T11:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=37226"},"modified":"2018-07-25T11:43:43","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T11:43:43","slug":"anil-kumble-unveils-ck-nayudus-statue-in-machilipatnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/anil-kumble-unveils-ck-nayudus-statue-in-machilipatnam\/","title":{"rendered":"Anil Kumble unveils CK Nayudu\u2019s statue in Machilipatnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A statue of India\u2019s first-ever Test captain Col CK Nayudu was unveiled by former skipper Anil Kumble at Machilipatnam town near in Amaravati on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am privileged to unveil Col Nayudu\u2019s statue in his hometown. Nayudu was a great cricketer who laid strong foundations for the development of the game in India,\u201d Kumble said on the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>The ace leg-spinner also laid the foundation for the construction of the Masula Sports Complex and Athletics Stadium, being built on a 13-acre site at a cost of Rs 15 crore.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the occasion, Kumble hailed the state government\u2019s initiatives aimed at developing sports infrastructure and nurturing talent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChief Minister Chandrababu Naidu has taken steps to ensure that every child in Andhra Pradesh has access to sport, gets trained, gets nurtured so that they all become future Olympians of our country. I am only hopeful that some day, someone from this crowd will go on to bring laurels for India in Indian sport,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully, in a years time we will see the stadium buzzing with activities and all the children will be playing there,\u201d Kumble said.<\/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>A statue of India\u2019s first-ever Test captain Col CK Nayudu was unveiled by former skipper Anil Kumble at Machilipatnam town near in Amaravati on Tuesday. \u201cI am privileged to unveil Col Nayudu\u2019s statue in his hometown. Nayudu was a great cricketer who laid strong foundations for the development of the game in India,\u201d Kumble said [&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":37227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37226","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\/37226","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=37226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37228,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37226\/revisions\/37228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}