{"id":59980,"date":"2019-04-26T11:12:40","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T11:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=59980"},"modified":"2019-04-26T11:12:41","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T11:12:41","slug":"ajinkya-rahane-joins-hampshire-after-missing-bus-for-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/ajinkya-rahane-joins-hampshire-after-missing-bus-for-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Ajinkya Rahane joins Hampshire after missing bus for World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Batsman  Ajinkya Rahane has missed out from India\u2019s World Cup squad but is doing  everything possible to keep himself ready if an opportunity arises by  joining English County Championship side Hampshire.<br><br>Rahane will  be the first Indian to represent the club and the right-hander is set to  play eight County Championship games between May and July, subject to  visa clearance.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m excited to be the first Indian to play \nfor Hampshire, a county which has a glowing reputation,\u201d Rahane said in a\n statement on Hampshire\u2019s website.\u201cI hope to score runs and win as a \nteam and would like to thank the BCCI for allowing me to play.\u201dThe \n30-year-old replaces batsman Aiden <br><br>Markram, who will depart \nfollowing the One-Day Cup group-stage to join up with South Africa\u2019s \nWorld Cup squad.Rahane has not played a one-day international since last\n year\u2019s February after failing to cement his spot in the Indian \ntop-order and was left out of their squad for the World Cup in England \nand Wales.<\/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>Batsman Ajinkya Rahane has missed out from India\u2019s World Cup squad but is doing everything possible to keep himself ready if an opportunity arises by joining English County Championship side Hampshire. Rahane will be the first Indian to represent the club and the right-hander is set to play eight County Championship games between May and [&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":59981,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59980","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\/59980","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=59980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59982,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59980\/revisions\/59982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}