{"id":19422,"date":"2022-04-07T20:51:15","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T15:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=211337"},"modified":"2022-04-07T20:51:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T15:21:15","slug":"tata-ipl-2022-shikhar-dhawan-recalls-a-girls-rejection-back-in-earlier-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/tata-ipl-2022-shikhar-dhawan-recalls-a-girls-rejection-back-in-earlier-days\/","title":{"rendered":"TATA IPL 2022: Shikhar Dhawan recalls a girl\u2019s rejection back in earlier days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Premier opener Shikhar Dhawan spoke up about being rejected by a girl during his early playing days in a frank interview with Punjab Kings on the franchise\u2019s official YouTube channel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce I proposed to a girl and she rejected me. She used to play at that time and had a dark face tone. So, you know what I said? I told her that you have rejected the Kohinoor diamond,\u201d Dhawan recalled.<\/p>\n<p>Shikhar Dhawan has played in the Indian Premier League (IPL) for a number of teams, including the five-time champion Mumbai Indians (MI), Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH), Deccan Chargers, Delhi Capitals (DC), and Punjab Kings (PBKS) in IPL 2022. PBKS purchased the left-handed batter for a hefty INR 8.25 crore at the blockbuster auction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shikhar Dhawan, the seasoned Indian opener, claimed that he was once rejected by a girl during his early playing days in a candid interview with Punjab Kings (PBKS).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":40094,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1462,102],"class_list":["post-19422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl","tag-punjab-kings","tag-shikhar-dhawan"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19422","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\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}