{"id":1971,"date":"2021-01-30T13:22:34","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T07:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=89491"},"modified":"2021-01-30T13:22:34","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T07:52:34","slug":"you-give-your-opposition-respect-rahane-on-not-cutting-the-kangaroo-themed-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/you-give-your-opposition-respect-rahane-on-not-cutting-the-kangaroo-themed-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cYou give your opposition respect\u201d: Rahane on not cutting the kangaroo-themed cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ajinkya Rahane, the stand-in skipper during the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in the absence of Virat Kohli, got a grand welcome when he came back to the country after creating history at Gabba. India beats Australia by 2-1 in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy and broke the 32-years winning momentum of the Australia at Gabba under the leadership of Ajinkya Rahane.<\/p>\n<p>Rahane received the grand welcome upon his arrival and was offered a chance to cut a cake with a kangaroo on it. However, Rahane refused to do so, and recently in a chat with Harsha Bhogale, he revealed the reason behind the incident. 32-year old explained why he didn\u2019t cut the kangaroo-themed cake.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKangaroo is their national animal I don\u2019t want to do that. You give your opposition respect; you treat them well even if you win or even if you create history. You have to have respect for your opponent and other countries. That is why I took the decision against cutting the cake with a kangaroo on it.\u201d Ajinkya Rahane told Harsha Bhogale.<\/p>\n<p>Rahane led the side after the unbearable defeat at Adelaide and midway he lost most of his senior bowlers because of injuries. Still, he managed to retain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy with the help of an inexperienced bowling line-up. After the win, many argued that he should be the permanent skipper of the Indian Cricket Team in Tests. However, the player insisted that Virat Kohli is still the captain, and he was only filling in for the former in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing changes. Virat was and will be the captain of the Test team, and I am his deputy. When he was absent, it was my duty to lead the side and my responsibility to give my best for team India\u2019s success.\u201d Rahane said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Always wanted to ask <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ajinkyarahane88?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ajinkyarahane88<\/a> about the cake he was offered with a kangaroo on it and why he refused to cut it. The small things that tell you more about a person. More of this conversation on his FB page. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YZwwQKlFJq\">pic.twitter.com\/YZwwQKlFJq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bhogleharsha\/status\/1355345017766780933?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 30, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ajinkya Rahane, the stand-in skipper during the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in the absence of Virat Kohli, got a grand welcome when\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":25070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[606,1325,1308,507],"class_list":["post-1971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-ajinkya-rahane","tag-border-gavaskar-series","tag-gabba-test","tag-harsha-bhogle"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971","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=1971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}