{"id":19784,"date":"2022-05-03T20:38:46","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T15:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=218667"},"modified":"2022-05-03T20:38:46","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T15:08:46","slug":"tata-ipl-2022-pbks-v-gt-the-game-plan-worked-for-punjab-irfan-pathan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/tata-ipl-2022-pbks-v-gt-the-game-plan-worked-for-punjab-irfan-pathan\/","title":{"rendered":"TATA IPL 2022 PBKS v GT: The \u2018Game Plan\u2019 worked for Punjab \u2013 Irfan Pathan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Irfan Pathan, a former Indian cricketer, took to Twitter to compliment Punjab Kings ahead of their incredible start against table-topping Gujarat Titans in the 48th match of IPL 2022. He also lauded Rishi Dhawan for dismissing Gujarat Titans captain Hardik Pandya with a brilliant delivery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe \u2018Game Plan\u2019 worked for Punjab. Bowling 4-5th stump line against Hardik. Well done Rishi Dhawan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rishi Dhawan bowled the 7th over and dismissed Hardik Pandya for 1 in 7 balls, giving Punjab Kings a great start. Rishi delivered an amazing shot that showed he was really getting out of his own. Hardik has had to exit as he had an outside edge.<\/p>\n<p>The Gujarat Titans have established themselves as the franchise to defeat in the 2022 Indian Premier League, and have a record of extracting victories from seemingly impossible situations.<\/p>\n<p>Hardik has so far collected 308 runs in the league after returning from an extended layoff and has guided the team from the front.<\/p>\n<p>Punjab Kings, on the other hand, has been unreliable, losing five of their last nine games and needing to refocus in order to make the playoffs.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The GAME PLAN worked for Punjab. Bowling 4-5th stump line against Hardik. Well done Rishi Dhawan.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Irfan Pathan (@IrfanPathan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IrfanPathan\/status\/1521498683556122624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 3, 2022<\/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>Hardik Pandya, captain of the Gujarat Titans, won the toss and chose to bat against the Punjab Kings at the DY Patil Sports Academy in Mumbai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":40440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3301,301,1462,3292],"class_list":["post-19784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl","tag-gtvpbks","tag-irfan-pathan","tag-punjab-kings","tag-rishi-dhawan"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19784","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=19784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}