{"id":27979,"date":"2019-01-08T17:30:51","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T17:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=27979"},"modified":"2019-01-08T17:49:37","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T17:49:37","slug":"indias-victory-over-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/08\/indias-victory-over-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s Victory over Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>&nbsp;Highlights of the game \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Pujara\nfaced total of 1258 deliveries for his 521 runs, a good 52.4 overs per Test.<\/li><li>Agarwal\nbecame the first Indian opener to get a half-century on debut in Australia.<\/li><li>From\npicking up crucial wickets to scoring utility half-centuries, throwing in from\nthe deep, Jadeja brought a great amount of positive energy to the side. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Ahead of\nthe series, as India prepared to get their batting order correct, a team\nmeeting was called to take stock of the options at hand. Prithvi Shaw had been\nruled out and India found themselves one step forward, two steps back. Skipper\nKohli and coach Shastri then handed the task of seeing of the shine to\nCheteshwar Pujara. \u201cJust go out there and meditate. You\u2019ll have to be the last\nbatsman getting out. Runs are secondary. Play time, \u201cis what Shastri said and\nPujara did what he does best, which ultimately contributed to the win of the\nseries. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Highlights of the game \u2026 Pujara faced total of 1258 deliveries for his 521 runs, a good 52.4 overs per Test. Agarwal became the first Indian opener to get a half-century on debut in Australia. From picking up crucial wickets to scoring utility half-centuries, throwing in from the deep, Jadeja brought a great amount of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}