{"id":54041,"date":"2019-02-02T12:10:16","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T12:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=54041"},"modified":"2019-02-02T12:10:18","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T12:10:18","slug":"mahendra-singh-dhoni-declared-fit-for-fifth-odi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/mahendra-singh-dhoni-declared-fit-for-fifth-odi\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahendra Singh Dhoni declared fit for fifth ODI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni has regained full fitness and will play the fifth and final ODI against New Zealand, India&#8217;s assistant coach Sanjay Bangar confirmed on Saturday. India and New Zealand will meet for the final ODI at the Westpac Stadium here on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although the visitors have sealed the series 3-1, they will look to bounce back after the eight-wicket defeat in the fourth ODI where they were bundled out for a paltry 92.<br>\nIndia&#8217;s most experienced ODI player was out of the last two games with a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Yes, he is fit and will be playing the fifth ODI,&#8221; Bangar told reporters on the eve of the game.The 37-year-old won the man of the series award in the recent three-match ODI series against Australia after scoring three fifties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He continued in the same vein in the ongoing series against New Zealand, scoring an unbeaten 33-ball 48 to take India to 324-4 in the second ODI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni has regained full fitness and will play the fifth and final ODI against New Zealand, India&#8217;s assistant coach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54042,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54041","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\/54041","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=54041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54043,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54041\/revisions\/54043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}