{"id":1870,"date":"2021-01-21T18:24:59","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T12:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=87339"},"modified":"2021-01-21T18:24:59","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T12:54:59","slug":"alex-carey-scored-a-ton-the-day-after-released-by-delhi-capitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/alex-carey-scored-a-ton-the-day-after-released-by-delhi-capitals\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Carey scored a ton the day after released by Delhi Capitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Carey scored a ton for Adelaide Strikers in BBL against Brisbane Heat, the day after released by the IPL franchise Delhi Capitals. Delhi Capitals released him as he didn\u2019t perform well for the franchise. He was given chances in 3 matches in which he scored 32 runs.<\/p>\n<p>Carey scored 101 in 62 balls and helped Strikers to enter the finals of BBL on Thursday night. The lefthander is just the sixth batsman in BBL history to score two centuries, following Craig Simmons, Usman Khawaja, Luke Wright, D\u2019Arcy Short, and Aaron Finch.<\/p>\n<p>After the astonishing performance of Alex Carey, Delhi Capitals coach Ricky Ponting stunned and shared his thoughts with the media about buying him back in the auctions.<\/p>\n<p>The young cricketer also made the remark after being dropped by the franchise and the astonishing knock that hopefully, someone will pick him up. \u201cIt was a really good opportunity in the first place to get over there and we\u2019ll see, if I go back in the auction, hopefully, someone will pick me up, [if] you are listening Ricky,\u201d said Alex Carey<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI also told him there is a chance, I\u2019ll buy him back at the auction. So not all is lost,\u201d responded Ricky.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ricky Ponting was on comms as Alex Carey scored a ton for Adelaide Strikers, the day after he was released by Delhi Capitals \ud83d\udc40<\/p>\n<p>Should they buy him back at the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IPL2021?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IPL2021<\/a> auction? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GKCEwJnL87\">pic.twitter.com\/GKCEwJnL87<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ESPNcricinfo (@ESPNcricinfo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNcricinfo\/status\/1352226940065869824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 21, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Carey scored a ton for Adelaide Strikers in BBL against Brisbane Heat, the day after released by the IPL\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":24970,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[1218,1025,1037,1189,587,663],"class_list":["post-1870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","category-ipl","tag-adelaide-strikers","tag-alex-carey","tag-bbl","tag-brisbane-heat","tag-delhi-capitals","tag-ricky-ponting"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870","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\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}