{"id":64290,"date":"2019-06-22T11:45:41","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T11:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=64290"},"modified":"2019-06-22T11:45:42","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T11:45:42","slug":"i-became-more-positive-after-being-ignored-for-world-cup-pant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/i-became-more-positive-after-being-ignored-for-world-cup-pant\/","title":{"rendered":"I became more positive after being ignored for World Cup: Pant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Back in the Indian team as a replacement following the injury to Shikhar Dhawan, young wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant on Friday said he remained positive despite being ignored from the World Cup squad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pant was flown in as cover after Dhawan suffered a thumb injury during his match-winning hundred against Australia.With the injury turning out to be a fracture, Dhawan was ruled out of the World Cup and Pant was named his replacement in the squad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen I didn\u2019t get selected, I thought maybe I didn\u2019t do something right, so I became more positive and focussed on how to improve myself. Then I did well in IPL. Then I kept practising,\u201d Pant told India spinner Yuzvendra Chahal in a video posted by BCCI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is one dream for all to make India win. When I came to know that I have been called to England as a back-up, my mother was with me. So I told her, she went to temple and paid her offerings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs a cricketer, I always wanted to play a World Cup and perform there and now that I have got this opportunity, I am feeling very happy.\u201d  <\/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>Back in the Indian team as a replacement following the injury to Shikhar Dhawan, young wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant on Friday said he remained positive despite being ignored from the World Cup squad. Pant was flown in as cover after Dhawan suffered a thumb injury during his match-winning hundred against Australia.With the injury turning out to [&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":64291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64290","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\/64290","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=64290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64292,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64290\/revisions\/64292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}