{"id":55628,"date":"2019-02-23T11:27:01","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T11:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=55628"},"modified":"2019-02-23T11:27:02","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T11:27:02","slug":"would-hate-to-give-two-points-to-pakistan-in-world-cup-tendulkar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/would-hate-to-give-two-points-to-pakistan-in-world-cup-tendulkar\/","title":{"rendered":"Would hate to give two points to Pakistan in World Cup: Tendulkar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar on Friday said he would \u201chate\u201d to see India concede two points to Pakistan by not playing them in the upcoming World Cup as such a move would only help the arch-rivals in the mega-event. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tendulkar endorsed Sunil Gavaskar\u2019s view that India would be better off beating Pakistan in the World Cup than forfeiting the June 16 tie in the wake of the Pulwama terror attack that killed more than 40 CRPF personnel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWho wins if India decide against playing Pakistan in the World Cup? And I am not even talking about the semis and the finals. Who wins? Pakistan win because they get two points,\u201d Gavaskar had told \u2018India Today\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHaving said that, for me India always comes first, so whatever my country decides, I will back that decision with all my heart,\u201d the legendary batsman added.While the likes of Harbhajan Singh and Yuzvendra Chahal have called for complete cricketing boycott of Pakistan, Gavaskar on Thursday said India will be the loser if they decide to not play against Pakistan on June 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIndia have so far beaten Pakistan every time in a World Cup, so we are actually conceding two points when by beating Pakistan, we could make sure that they don\u2019t advance in the competition,\u201d he had said.<\/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>Cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar on Friday said he would \u201chate\u201d to see India concede two points to Pakistan by not playing them in the upcoming World Cup as such a move would only help the arch-rivals in the mega-event. Tendulkar endorsed Sunil Gavaskar\u2019s view that India would be better off beating Pakistan in the World [&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":55629,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55628","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\/55628","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=55628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55630,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55628\/revisions\/55630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}