{"id":52058,"date":"2019-01-08T11:19:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T11:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=52058"},"modified":"2019-01-08T11:19:30","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T11:19:30","slug":"ravi-shastri-trolled-for-saying-test-series-win-bigger-than-1983-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/ravi-shastri-trolled-for-saying-test-series-win-bigger-than-1983-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravi Shastri trolled for saying Test series win bigger than 1983 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s head coach Ravi Shastri made a big statement after his team won their first-ever Test series in Australia on Monday. Speaking to the media in\u2009Sydney, Shastri said that the series win is as big as the 1983 World Cup win or even bigger than that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will tell you how satisfying it is for me. World Cup 1983, World Championship of Cricket 1985 this is as big, or even bigger, because it is in the truest format of the game. It\u2019s Test cricket, which is meant to be the toughest,\u201d Shastri said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Test cricket is the pinnacle format of the sport, but many fans regard the 1983 World Cup as the turning point in Indian cricket. Therefore, a few cricket followers on Twitter decided to let Shastri know about the importance of the World Cup victory.<\/p>\n<p>Ranked as world number one, India lifted the Border Gavaskar Trophy after clinching the four-Test series 2-1. The hosts Australia were bundled out for 300 on the fourth day of the fourth Test, which also forced them to follow-on at home for the first time in 30 years.<\/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>India\u2019s head coach Ravi Shastri made a big statement after his team won their first-ever Test series in Australia on Monday. Speaking to the media in\u2009Sydney, Shastri said that the series win is as big as the 1983 World Cup win or even bigger than that. \u201cI will tell you how satisfying it is for [&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":52059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52058","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\/52058","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=52058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52060,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52058\/revisions\/52060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}