{"id":1852,"date":"2021-01-20T12:17:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T06:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=86745"},"modified":"2021-01-20T12:17:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T06:47:04","slug":"australia-vs-india-ricky-ponting-admits-india-was-the-better-team-but-cant-get-over-how-the-aussies-lost-to-india-a-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/australia-vs-india-ricky-ponting-admits-india-was-the-better-team-but-cant-get-over-how-the-aussies-lost-to-india-a-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia vs India: Ricky Ponting admits India was the better Team but can\u2019t get over how the Aussies lost to India A team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Australia vs India: The former Australia captain Ricky Ponting, was one of the first to predict India\u2019s whitewash by the Aussies. However when the results came. Ponting was shocked as India won the Border-Gavaskar Trophy by defeating Australia in the fourth Test at the Gabba on Tuesday. India won the series by 2-1.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">While speaking to cricket.com.au.\u00a0<\/span><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cI\u2019m quite shocked that Australia weren\u2019t quite good enough to win this series. The cold hard facts of it are pretty much that was the India A team that played this Test match and (India) still won,\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">India missed their prominent players including the skipper Virat Kohli. Playing a fairly inexperienced bowling line-up against the hosts in the final Test match. However, the bowling attack did a marvellous job. Mohammed Siraj\u2019s maiden five-wicket haul to set sight of win. But it was Shubman Gill and Rishabh Pant who made sure India crossed the line.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Ponting also praised Sundar\u2019s confident batting. Playing the Aussie pacer with ease.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia vs India: The former Australia captain Ricky Ponting, was one of the first to predict India\u2019s whitewash by the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":24952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[606,995,663],"class_list":["post-1852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-ajinkya-rahane","tag-cricket-australia","tag-ricky-ponting"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852","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\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}