{"id":72049,"date":"2019-10-08T10:35:10","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T10:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=72049"},"modified":"2019-10-08T10:35:11","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T10:35:11","slug":"i-ended-gambhirs-white-ball-career-claims-muhammad-irfan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/i-ended-gambhirs-white-ball-career-claims-muhammad-irfan\/","title":{"rendered":"I ended Gambhir\u2019s white-ball career, claims Muhammad Irfan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s out-of-favour left-arm pacer Muhammad Irfan has recalled how Gautam Gambhir\u2019s distinct discomfort while facing him during the 2012 bilateral series literally finished the Indian opener\u2019s white-ball career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Standing tall at 7ft 1 inch, Irfan dismissed Gambhir four times during that limited overs series and the southpaw played only one more white-ball series for India before being dropped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Irfan claimed that it was that particular series that ended Gambhir\u2019s career.\u201cHe didn\u2019t like to face me in match or when both teams had nets. I always felt he avoided eye-to-eye contact with me. I remember I got him out four times in the 2012 limited over series and he was unnerved against me,\u201d Irfan said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also appeared in just one more ODI series against England after facing Pakistan in the winter of 2012\/2013 and was never picked in white-ball format by India again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To a question, Irfan said he wouldn\u2019t say anyone was \u201cscared of him\u201d but when he went out, people congratulated him for ending Gambhir\u2019s white-ball career.He recalled in the interview that Virat Kohli had told him while batting against him, that he didn\u2019t read his pace properly.<\/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>Pakistan\u2019s out-of-favour left-arm pacer Muhammad Irfan has recalled how Gautam Gambhir\u2019s distinct discomfort while facing him during the 2012 bilateral series literally finished the Indian opener\u2019s white-ball career. Standing tall at 7ft 1 inch, Irfan dismissed Gambhir four times during that limited overs series and the southpaw played only one more white-ball series for India [&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":72050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72049","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\/72049","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=72049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72051,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72049\/revisions\/72051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}