{"id":43233,"date":"2018-09-28T12:04:43","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T12:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=43233"},"modified":"2018-09-28T12:04:43","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T12:04:43","slug":"pro-kabaddi-league-rishank-devadiga-named-captain-of-up-yoddha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/pro-kabaddi-league-rishank-devadiga-named-captain-of-up-yoddha\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro Kabaddi League: Rishank Devadiga named captain of UP Yoddha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pro Kabaddi League franchise UP Yoddha on Thursday named raider Rishank Devadiga as its captain for the sixth edition of the event starting November 2.<\/p>\n<p>The launch ceremony was attended by UP sports minister Chetan Chauhan and players from the squad among others.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Given Uttar Pradesh&#8217;s rich history in the sport of Kabaddi it was befitting for UP to have a team in the league and I am glad that the GMR Group recognised this opportunity,&#8221; said Chauhan.<\/p>\n<p>The team is being coached by former national player Jasvir Singh. Jasvir is a former Asian Games Gold medallist and was a part of the national squad that won the World Cup in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Devadiga leads the 19-member squad of the UP Yoddha team, which consists of seven raiders, eight Defenders and four all-rounders.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, it was Nitin Tomar who led the Yoddha in the fifth season of the league, where UP made it&#8217;s debut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro Kabaddi League franchise UP Yoddha on Thursday named raider Rishank Devadiga as its captain for the sixth edition of the event starting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43234,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43233","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\/43233","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=43233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43235,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43233\/revisions\/43235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}