{"id":1991,"date":"2021-01-31T17:46:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T12:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=89908"},"modified":"2021-01-31T17:46:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T12:16:56","slug":"pm-narendra-modi-praises-indias-glorious-series-win-against-australia-on-mann-ki-baat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/pm-narendra-modi-praises-indias-glorious-series-win-against-australia-on-mann-ki-baat\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Narendra Modi praises India\u2019s \u201cglorious\u201d series win against Australia on \u2018Mann Ki Baat\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday praised the Indian cricket team for their Test series win against Australia.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cThis month, we got good news from the cricket pitch. After initial hiccups, the Indian team bounced back gloriously and won the series in Australia. Our team\u2019s hard work and teamwork was inspiring,\u201d PM Modi said during \u2018Mann Ki Baat\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In reply, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) thanked PM Modi for his appreciation and tweeted: \u201cThank you Shri @narendramodi ji for your appreciation and words of encouragement. #TeamIndia will do everything possible to keep the tricolour flying high. @imVkohli @ajinkyarahane88 @RaviShastriOfc @RishabhPant17 @Jaspritbumrah93 @ImRo45 @JayShah @SGanguly99 @ThakurArunS.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thank you Shri <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/narendramodi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@narendramodi<\/a> ji for your appreciation and words of encouragement. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TeamIndia?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TeamIndia<\/a> will do everything possible to keep the tricolour \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3 flying high. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/imVkohli?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@imVkohli<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ajinkyarahane88?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ajinkyarahane88<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RaviShastriOfc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RaviShastriOfc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RishabhPant17?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RishabhPant17<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jaspritbumrah93?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Jaspritbumrah93<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ImRo45?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ImRo45<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JayShah?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JayShah<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SGanguly99?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SGanguly99<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThakurArunS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ThakurArunS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fceD3bgO09\">https:\/\/t.co\/fceD3bgO09<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BCCI (@BCCI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BCCI\/status\/1355776598264356866?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 31, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Australia\u2019s Fortress, \u2018The Gabba\u2019 was finally breached on January 19 by an injury-ravaged young Indian team. After 32 years and two months, the young team defeated the hosts by three wickets in the fourth Test to win the series 2-1.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The last time when a visiting team defeated the host in Gabba was in November 1988, when West Indies under Viv Richards thrashed the Aussie team captained by Allan Border by nine wickets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This win by India ensured that they beat Australia in the ICC Test Team Rankings to claim the second spot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Currently, the focus has been shifted to the upcoming series against England. India and England are set to battle it out in four Tests, three ODIs and five T20Is. While the first two Tests of four will be played in Chennai, the cricketers would have to travel to Ahmedabad for the third and fourth Test.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday praised the Indian cricket team for their Test series win against Australia.\u00a0 \u201cThis month,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":25090,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1386,995,71],"class_list":["post-1991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-australia-cricket-team","tag-cricket-australia","tag-narendra-modi"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991","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\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}