{"id":1968,"date":"2021-01-30T11:02:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T05:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=89443"},"modified":"2021-01-30T11:02:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T05:32:40","slug":"australias-great-pacer-mitchell-starc-celebrates-his-31st-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/australias-great-pacer-mitchell-starc-celebrates-his-31st-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s great pacer Mitchell Starc celebrates his 31st Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Mitchell Starc turns 31: Australia\u2019s left-handed pacer Mitchell Starc turns 31 today. Once aspiring wicketkeeper turned into a striking fast bowler. His ability to bowl at high speed and swinging deliveries has helped him to rise through the ranks to one of the best modern-day bowlers, almost in every format of the game.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Due to several injuries in the team and stellar domestic performances, he finally received the Baggy Green, against New Zealand at the Gabba in late 2011. His debut Test was largely underwhelming, as he leaked runs at an alarming rate and took only 2 wickets in the match.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">However, now when you take a look at his records now he has achieved a lot<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Starc is the fastest pace bowler to reach 100 ODI wickets.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">486 International wickets<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Player of the 2015 World Cup<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Starc\u2019s contribution in 2015 WC is inestimable. The leading wicket-taker (22) in WC 2015 and bowled brilliantly in death overs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitchell Starc turns 31: Australia\u2019s left-handed pacer Mitchell Starc turns 31 today. Once aspiring wicketkeeper turned into a striking fast\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":25067,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[995,332],"class_list":["post-1968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-cricket-australia","tag-mitchell-starc"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968","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=1968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}