{"id":44960,"date":"2018-10-21T09:46:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T09:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=44960"},"modified":"2018-10-21T09:46:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T09:46:16","slug":"india-vs-west-indies-virat-kohli-leads-team-indias-flying-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/india-vs-west-indies-virat-kohli-leads-team-indias-flying-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"India vs West Indies: Virat Kohli leads Team India\u2019s flying squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian cricket team sweat it hard during their training session on the eve of the first ODI against West Indies at the Barsapara Cricket Stadium in Guwahati on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Under the watchful eyes of fielding coach R Sreedhar, the Indian players were pictured doing fielding drills at the stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Skipper Virat Kohli was pictured doing catching practice and so were middle-order batsman Manish Pandey and left-arm medium pacer Khaleel Ahmed.<\/p>\n<p>A formidable India will hope to get more answers for their unresolved middle-order puzzle when they take on a reeling West Indies in the five-match ODI series starting Sunday, ticking off the home team\u2019s countdown to the 2019 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The World Cup in England is less than eight months away and India have 18 games left to decide their middle order, mainly the number four position where many have been tried but with little success.<\/p>\n<p>The series will also mark captain Virat Kohli\u2019s return to white-ball cricket as he had taken a much needed break during the team\u2019s triumphant campaign in Asia Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian cricket team sweat it hard during their training session on the eve of the first ODI against West Indies at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44961,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44960","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\/44960","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=44960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44962,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44960\/revisions\/44962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}