{"id":76723,"date":"2019-12-20T11:09:31","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T11:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=76723"},"modified":"2019-12-20T11:09:32","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T11:09:32","slug":"anil-kumble-picked-sheldon-cottrell-in-desperation-says-gautam-gambhir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/anil-kumble-picked-sheldon-cottrell-in-desperation-says-gautam-gambhir\/","title":{"rendered":"Anil Kumble picked Sheldon Cottrell in desperation, says Gautam Gambhir"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>West Indies pacer Sheldon Cottrell was on Thursday snapped up by Kings XI Punjab for a whopping Rs 8.5 crore in the Indian Premier League auction. However, former India opener Gautam Gambhir reckoned the Punjab based franchise\u2019s Director Of Cricket Operations Anil Kumble picked the Caribbean cricketer in desperation as they were not left with much options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cottrell had a great outing in the 2019 World Cup in England as he had emerged as West Indies\u2019 highest wicket-taker after picking up 12 wickets from nine games at an economy rate of 5.85.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere were no better options, Pat Cummins and Chris Morris both were sold out they tried hard to get Morris but it didn\u2019t work. I still don\u2019t think Sheldon Cottrell has enough quality to become an 8.5 cr bowler. He\u2019s still to build on accuracy and speed yet that he can bowl at 145 speed; he can look at putting cutters but that might not help at Mohali.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think Anil Kumble picked him up in desperation since they couldn\u2019t get Chris Morris or Pat Cummins. If the demand is high and supply is low, these things happen,\u201d he added.<\/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>West Indies pacer Sheldon Cottrell was on Thursday snapped up by Kings XI Punjab for a whopping Rs 8.5 crore in the Indian Premier League auction. However, former India opener Gautam Gambhir reckoned the Punjab based franchise\u2019s Director Of Cricket Operations Anil Kumble picked the Caribbean cricketer in desperation as they were not left with [&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":76724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76723","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\/76723","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=76723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76725,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76723\/revisions\/76725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}