{"id":73000,"date":"2019-10-23T11:28:40","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T11:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=73000"},"modified":"2019-10-23T11:28:41","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T11:28:41","slug":"we-should-have-only-5-strong-test-centres-says-kohli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/we-should-have-only-5-strong-test-centres-says-kohli\/","title":{"rendered":"We should have only 5 strong Test centres, says Kohli"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>India captain Virat Kohli feels that time has come for the BCCI to zero in on five permanent Test centres for future home series, similar to the English and Australian model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Australia, Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Brisbane and Adelaide are the five designated Test centres whenever the big teams come calling. Similarly in England, the Lord&#8217;s, Oval, Trent Bridge, Old Trafford, Edgbaston, Rose Bowl and Headingley are the seven main Test centres for any marquee series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asked about the empty stands in Ranchi, Kohli lapped up the question. \u201cThat&#8217;s a great question. We have been discussing this for a long time now. And in my opinion, we should have five Test centres. Period,\u201d the skipper said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLook, if you want to keep Test cricket alive and exciting, I totally agree with the fact that we need five Test centres at max. It can&#8217;t be sporadic and spread over so many places where people turn up or they don&#8217;t,\u201d the skipper said, not mincing words.  \u201cSo in my opinion, absolutely, we should have five strong Test centres where the team coming to India knows that this is where we&#8217;re going to play and nowhere else.\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>India captain Virat Kohli feels that time has come for the BCCI to zero in on five permanent Test centres for future home series, similar to the English and Australian model. In Australia, Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Brisbane and Adelaide are the five designated Test centres whenever the big teams come calling. Similarly in England, the [&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":73001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73000","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\/73000","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=73000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73002,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73000\/revisions\/73002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}