{"id":1897,"date":"2021-01-24T15:57:16","date_gmt":"2021-01-24T10:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=87953"},"modified":"2021-01-24T16:05:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-24T10:35:07","slug":"t-natarajan-credited-his-india-teammates-for-motivation-and-support-during-australia-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/t-natarajan-credited-his-india-teammates-for-motivation-and-support-during-australia-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"T Natarajan credited his India teammates  for \u201cMotivation and Support\u201d during Australia tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>T Natarajan, the first Indian Cricketer who made his International debut in India vs Australia test series was one if the success stories for India in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Natarajan made his test debut in the final match against Australia in Brisbane after his debuts in ODI and T20 series. He also received a widespread praise and applauds from fans for his performance<\/p>\n<p>In an interview at his hometown of Salem in Tamil Nadu, Natarajan said, \u201cMy teammates supported me in the dressing room as I was under pressure, their motivation and support helped me throughout the tour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the tour Indian team was ossified by numerous injuries, before the final test Jasprit Bumrah, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin and Hanuma Vihari being added to the list.<\/p>\n<p>He also added that, \u201c when the opportunity was offered I was under lot of pressure, my only thought was to take wickets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Due to absence of senior cricketers all the responsibility and pressure fell on the shoulders of young cricketers.<\/p>\n<p>On December 2,2020, in the third ODI against Australia he made his international debut where India won by 13 runs and Natranajan took two wickets.<\/p>\n<p>In the fourth and final test he took 3 wickets. He said, \u201cIt was like a dream to take Australian wickets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also added that, \u201cHardwork willnever go to waste. It is always rewarding.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T Natarajan, the first Indian Cricketer who made his International debut in India vs Australia test series was one if\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":24996,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[973],"class_list":["post-1897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-t-natarajan"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897","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\/132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}