{"id":62009,"date":"2019-05-24T12:29:47","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T12:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=62009"},"modified":"2019-05-24T12:29:49","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T12:29:49","slug":"harbhajan-singh-picks-his-favourite-of-the-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/harbhajan-singh-picks-his-favourite-of-the-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Harbhajan Singh picks his favourite of the tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Veteran India spinner Harbhajan Singh insists his country deserve to be ranked alongside hosts England as joint favourites to win the World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chasing their first World Cup crown, England have emerged as a formidable force, while defending champions Australia are also highly regarded after winning four of the last five editions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But India, second in the ICC one-day rankings, are the only team to have broken Australia\u2019s dominance over the last 20 years when Harbhajan and company took the silverware on home soil in 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Harbhajan, who last played for India in 2016, has featured in three 50-over World Cups and two finals.And the 38-year-old off-spinner is certain India\u2019s current crop have enough quality to match England and Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asked who he sees as favourites, Harbhajan told reporters: \u201cIndia, India and England I think.\u201dExpectations are high in India that their team can bring home a third world title, emulating the famous first success in the tournament in England in 1983.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Harbhajan, who has taken 417 Test wickets and 269 in ODIs, acknowledges that intense desire for success from the Indian public will bring its own pressures for Virat Kohli\u2019s squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran India spinner Harbhajan Singh insists his country deserve to be ranked alongside hosts England as joint favourites to win the World Cup. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62010,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62009","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\/62009","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=62009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62011,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62009\/revisions\/62011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}