{"id":1280,"date":"2020-08-29T11:51:18","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T06:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=39270"},"modified":"2020-08-29T11:51:18","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T06:21:18","slug":"soon-to-be-father-virat-kohli-expected-to-travel-australia-with-rest-of-the-team-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/soon-to-be-father-virat-kohli-expected-to-travel-australia-with-rest-of-the-team-source\/","title":{"rendered":"Soon to be father Virat Kohli expected to travel Australia with rest of the team: Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India captain Virat Kohli is expected to travel with the rest of the team to Australia later this year despite his wife expecting their first child in January, a key official of the BCCI told Reuters on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Viral Kohli\u2019s social media post announcing his wife\u2019s pregnancy went viral, drawing good wishes from several celebrities, politicians and his Indian cricket team mates.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">And then, we were three! Arriving Jan 2021 \u2764\ufe0f\ud83d\ude4f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0BDSogBM1n\">pic.twitter.com\/0BDSogBM1n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Virat Kohli (@imVkohli) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/imVkohli\/status\/1298856026544906240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 27, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Cricket Australia (CA) and its broadcasters would be \u201cholding their breath\u201d over the presence of one of the biggest global stars of world cricket, as per media reports.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201d He\u2019s available for the tour, at least he has not said anything to the contrary,\u201d<\/strong> said an official, who asked to remain anonymous.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cNow, if he has to come back in the middle of the tour, he has not said anything about that either. Of course there\u2019s plenty of time before the series.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Beginning on the 3rd of December in Brisbane, India will play four Tests, sandwiched between three Twenty20 Internationals and three ODI\u2019s, in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The series against India is reportedly expected to be worth 300 million Australian dollars ($220 million) to Cricket Australia (CA), having already lost this year\u2019s T20 World Cup due to the Covid-19 pandemic and will now host the tournament in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s Channel Seven has threatened CA, to terminate their contract over the board\u2019s handling of the summer schedule, which further adds pressure on Cricket Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India captain Virat Kohli is expected to travel with the rest of the team to Australia later this year despite\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":24403,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}