{"id":42253,"date":"2018-09-17T11:41:19","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T11:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=42253"},"modified":"2018-09-17T11:41:19","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T11:41:19","slug":"jammu-and-kashmir-pushes-for-indian-premier-league-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/jammu-and-kashmir-pushes-for-indian-premier-league-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Jammu and Kashmir pushes for Indian Premier League team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cricket may return soon to Jammu and Kashmir as the state\u2019s governor Satya Pal Malik said that the state authorities are working with the Indian Premier League (IPL) to field a team of their own.<\/p>\n<p>Malik said that he is in touch with IPL Chairman Rajiv Shukla and the state authorities are trying to have a team from Jammu and Kashmir besides hosting some of the IPL matches in the valley.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am working with IPL Chairman Rajiv Shukla on the idea of having an IPL team for J&amp;K. Very soon IPL matches will be played in J&amp;K,\u201d said Malik after launching the \u2018Swachhata Hi Seva \u2019 programme in Srinagar.<\/p>\n<p>The state of Jammu &amp; Kashmir has produced three cricketers who have played in the IPL but the state does not have a team of their own. Parvez Rasool played 11 matches in the tournament while Manzoor Ahmad Dar bought by Kings XI Punjab for Rs 20 lakh for the 2018 season.<\/p>\n<p>Mithun Manhas, who is a native of Jammu, has also played for multiple teams in the Indian Premier League. Manhas was also appointed assistant coach of Indian Premier League side Kings XI Punjab.<\/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>Cricket may return soon to Jammu and Kashmir as the state\u2019s governor Satya Pal Malik said that the state authorities are working with the Indian Premier League (IPL) to field a team of their own. Malik said that he is in touch with IPL Chairman Rajiv Shukla and the state authorities are trying to have [&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":42254,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42253","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\/42253","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=42253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42255,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42253\/revisions\/42255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}