{"id":5551,"date":"2017-09-21T11:26:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T11:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=5551"},"modified":"2017-09-21T11:26:34","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T11:26:34","slug":"rain-looms-large-as-india-opt-to-bat-against-australia-in-kolkata-odi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/rain-looms-large-as-india-opt-to-bat-against-australia-in-kolkata-odi\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain looms large as India opt to bat against Australia in Kolkata ODI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India won the toss and elected to bat first at an Eden Gardens that hasn\u2019t looked this sunny for most of the week. For the second time in this five-match series, India will bat first.<\/p>\n<p>They will, of course, hope for a start that is different from the one they had in Chennai. Virat Kohli is keeping the faith in the boys that put India ahead in the series while Steve Smith said Australia have got Kane Richardson for James Faulkner and Ashton Agar replaced Adam Zampa, who was hit for three successive sixes by Hardik Pandya making it perhaps the turning point of the match.<\/p>\n<p>Kohli said he wanted to make use of the wicket because the ball tends to do a lot more at night. \u201cAnd of course we have two wrist spinners. So we would back our bowlers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Kohli said, not for the first time, that the middle and the lower order\u2019s performance in Chennai was really pleasing. \u201cWe take a lot of pride in how they perform. They don\u2019t get too many chances but when they play like this, it boots the confidence of the side.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Playing his 100th ODI, Steve Smith said the pitch looks good and they too would have batted first had he called correctly.<\/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 won the toss and elected to bat first at an Eden Gardens that hasn\u2019t looked this sunny for most of the week. For the second time in this five-match series, India will bat first. They will, of course, hope for a start that is different from the one they had in Chennai. Virat Kohli [&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":5552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5551","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\/5551","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=5551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5553,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5551\/revisions\/5553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}