{"id":1551,"date":"2020-11-27T10:11:01","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T04:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=76572"},"modified":"2020-11-27T10:11:01","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T04:41:01","slug":"aus-vs-ind-its-important-to-start-well-as-a-team-says-virat-kohli-ahead-of-first-odi-against-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/aus-vs-ind-its-important-to-start-well-as-a-team-says-virat-kohli-ahead-of-first-odi-against-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"AUS vs IND: \u201cIt\u2019s important to start well as a team\u201d, says Virat Kohli ahead of first ODI against Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian side captain Virat Kohli opined that his team should start well in the first ODI against Australia. The long awaited Australian tour has already begun.<\/p>\n<p>Virat Kohli will lead his side to the first international cricket in Sydney since the COVID-19 lockdown. India will play two more games in the ODI series, 3 match T20I series are to start from 4th December and 4 Test matches.<\/p>\n<p>Before the start of the long waited match, Virat Kohli revealed his team is well prepared and strong. Virat Kohli also clarified about the opening duo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s important to start well as a team, we need to start strongly and set the momentum for the matches ahead. The preparations have been nice, we got some valuable time ( on account of the quarantine). Mayank Agarwal will open- Manish Pandey, Shubman Gill, Shardul Thakur, Natarajan and Sanju Samson are the five players missing out.<\/p>\n<p>The match will have limited crowd keeping in mind the COVID-19 protocols. Both the team captains have come from playing IPL 2020 for the IPL franchise and are the two main players to watch for.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virat Kohli captioned saying that they as a team should start well for the long waited tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":24661,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[631,712,629,873,230,973],"class_list":["post-1551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-manish-pandey","tag-mayank-agarwal","tag-sanju-samson","tag-shardul-thakur","tag-shubman-gill","tag-t-natarajan"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551","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\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}