{"id":57082,"date":"2019-03-16T11:04:21","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T11:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=57082"},"modified":"2019-03-16T11:04:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-16T11:04:22","slug":"ab%e2%80%89de-villiers-picks-four-2019-world-cup-favourites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/ab%e2%80%89de-villiers-picks-four-2019-world-cup-favourites\/","title":{"rendered":"AB\u2009de Villiers picks four 2019 World Cup favourites"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>South Africa cricket great AB de Villiers has weighed in on the probable winner of the 2019 World Cup in England.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>De Villiers notched up phenomenal numbers across the course of his international career that he brought to a close last year and is regarded among one of the all-time greats of the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South Africa are currently playing Sri Lanka at home and have taken an unassailable 4-0 lead in their five-match ODI series. However De Villiers, who averaged a staggering 53.50 with the bat from his 228 ODIs, feels that his former international side aren\u2019t in the running for the World Cup in England just yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIndia and England are looking strong, Australia have won five World Cups in the past and Pakistan claimed the Champions Trophy in the UK two years ago. Those four teams are probably the favourites, but the way the Proteas have been playing in the 50-over format of late has been encouraging\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Proteas legend will soon be plying his trade in the upcoming edition of the Indian Premier League where he turns up for Royal Challengers Bangalore. \u201cThe Proteas are certainly in the running, but I won\u2019t say they are the favourites to be honest with you\u201d, De Villiers told South African website sport24.He further added that India and England are strong contenders, while Australia and Pakistan will also be in the mix.<\/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>South Africa cricket great AB de Villiers has weighed in on the probable winner of the 2019 World Cup in England. De Villiers notched up phenomenal numbers across the course of his international career that he brought to a close last year and is regarded among one of the all-time greats of the game. South [&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":57083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57082","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\/57082","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=57082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57084,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57082\/revisions\/57084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}