{"id":1085,"date":"2020-08-02T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T01:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=28126"},"modified":"2020-07-31T14:48:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T09:18:43","slug":"twitter-and-social-media-got-better-of-players-in-ipl-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/twitter-and-social-media-got-better-of-players-in-ipl-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter and Social Media got better of players in IPL 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 10th edition of the IPL was a platform for players to show their talent on as well as off the field and on numerous occasion the talks off the field made the headlines for not so good reasons.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kieron Pollard and Sanjay Manjrekar Spat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 10th edition of IPL and the West Indies all rounder could not keep away himself from another feud this time with Sanjay Manjrekar for calling him \u2018brainless\u2019 on AIR while commenting on the match. How ever the former Indian Cricketer may not have used the word \u2018brainless\u2019 but Pollard was vocal to lash out on him via Twitter where he expressed his strong words and thus creating quite a fuss about the issue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Harish Goenka\u2019s dig at Dhoni<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With Chennai Super Kings terminated for 2 seasons Dhoni was grabbed by the Pune Franchise but however did make him the captain of the team. Instead Steve Smith took over and made quite a run till the Finals which they eventually lost against Mumbai Indians, As this was all taking place Harish Goenka, brother of Sanjay Goenka the owner of Pune posted a seires of Comments on Twitter against M.S,Dhoni but that did not hamper his performance at all. Soon after his comments he received a lot of slack from the fans on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>For More updates follow BusinessUpturn.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 10th edition of the IPL was a platform for players to show their talent on as well as off the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":24217,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[135,295,300],"class_list":["post-1085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-mahendra-singh-dhoni","tag-pollard","tag-sanjay-manjrekar"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}