{"id":46147,"date":"2018-11-02T11:41:09","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T11:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=46147"},"modified":"2018-11-02T11:41:09","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T11:41:09","slug":"dhoni-still-integral-part-of-the-team-virat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/dhoni-still-integral-part-of-the-team-virat\/","title":{"rendered":"Dhoni still integral part of the team: Virat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thiruvananthapuram<br \/>\nIndia captain Virat Kohli on Thursday reiterated that MS Dhoni remains an integral part of the ODI team and the veteran wicketkeeper batsman decided not to play the upcoming T20s only to make way for Rishabh Pant. \u201cI think selectors have already addressed this if I\u2019m not wrong. And he\u2019s been spoken to, firstly&#8230; So, I don\u2019t see any reason why I should be sitting here and explaining that. I think the selectors have come out and explained exactly what happened,\u201d said Kohli.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was not part of that conversation so&#8230; It is what the selectors explained. I think people are putting too much variables into the situation, which is not the case. He\u2019s still a very integral part of this team and he just feels that in the T20 format, someone like Rishabh can get more chances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dhoni has been dropped for the upcoming T20 series against West Indies and Australia and there is a possibility that he would never again play for India in the shortest format. \u201cHe anyway plays the ODIs for us regularly, so from that point of view, he\u2019s only trying to help the youngsters,\u201d Kohli said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thiruvananthapuram India captain Virat Kohli on Thursday reiterated that MS Dhoni remains an integral part of the ODI team and the veteran wicketkeeper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46147","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\/46147","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=46147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46149,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46147\/revisions\/46149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}