{"id":18221,"date":"2020-09-19T12:25:22","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T06:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=49978"},"modified":"2020-09-19T12:26:16","modified_gmt":"2020-09-19T06:56:16","slug":"ipl-2020-437-days-later-csk-fans-get-to-witness-their-favourite-team-against-mumbai-indians-on-the-fields-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2020-437-days-later-csk-fans-get-to-witness-their-favourite-team-against-mumbai-indians-on-the-fields-today\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2020: 437 days later CSK fans get to witness their favourite team against Mumbai Indians on the fields today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IPL 2020 could not have asked for a better start, considering the history between Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings. At one point in time, there were doubts over CSK\u2019s availability for the opening match due to the COVID-19 concerns in their camp but the 3-time champions are set to play the curtain-raiser.<\/p>\n<p>CSK has kick-started the tournament 5 times, winning 3 of those games. Fans are eagerly waiting and are excited to see their favorite team captains on the screen tonight at 7:30 pm IST.<\/p>\n<p>Though Media personnel will not have access to the stadium, there will be a mandatory virtual media conference after every IPL 2020 game. There will be no gala opening ceremony for the world\u2019s richest T20 league, and the games will be played behind closed doors at three venues including Dubai and Sharjah.<\/p>\n<p>After a long wait of 437 days, the Whistle Podu Army will witness their team facing Mumbai Indians Paltans. On the other hand, to keep the excitement alive Chennai Super Kings took to Twitter and Instagram and shared a picture of MS Dhoni gearing up \u201cPreviously on Breaking Pad\u2026\u201d with their Whistle Podu Army.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Previously on Breaking Pad\u2026 \ud83d\udd25<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WhistlePodu?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WhistlePodu<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Yellove?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Yellove<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l9ZEjzxXM4\">pic.twitter.com\/l9ZEjzxXM4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chennai Super Kings (@ChennaiIPL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChennaiIPL\/status\/1306974310624448513?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Tonight the whole of India will be glued to their screens to watch the ultimate battle between Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings. The excitement can\u2019t be contained and cricket fans joy knows no boundaries. Both teams bring out the best in them and have often been part of several close encounters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IPL 2020 could not have asked for a better start, considering the history between Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":38957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[320,69,347],"class_list":["post-18221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl","tag-chennai-super-kings","tag-ms-dhoni","tag-uae"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18221","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\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}