{"id":20071,"date":"2022-05-30T00:07:32","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T18:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=225732"},"modified":"2022-05-30T00:14:17","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T18:44:17","slug":"ipl-2022-natasa-stankovics-emotional-hug-to-hardik-pandya-is-a-picture-of-the-day-after-gt-secures-win-against-rr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2022-natasa-stankovics-emotional-hug-to-hardik-pandya-is-a-picture-of-the-day-after-gt-secures-win-against-rr\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2022: Natasa Stankovic\u2019s emotional hug to Hardik Pandya is a picture of the day after GT secures win against RR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Skipper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Hardik+Pandya+\">Hardik Pandya<\/a> led the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=+Gujarat+Titans+\">Gujarat Titans<\/a> to their maiden IPL title on Sunday. In the first half of the match, Pandya bowled a spectacular spell of 17\/3 in his four overs. He took the crucial wickets of Jos Buttler, Sanju Samson, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Shimron+Hetmyer\">Shimron Hetmyer<\/a> to push Rajasthan on the backfoot. In the second innings, chasing a target of 131 runs, Pandya played a knock of 34 runs in 30 balls in the middle overs to provide GT the much-needed momentum.<\/p>\n<p>Gujarat emerged victorious in their first IPL season, taking the prestigious trophy home. Post the match, Pandya\u2019s wife Natasa Stankovic hugged Pandya emotionally, congratulating his maiden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=IPL\">IPL<\/a> title victory as a captain. Hardik, as a player, now has five IPL titles in his bag and is just behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/?s=Rohit+Sharma+\">Rohit Sharma<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gujarat Titans win their maiden IPL title after defeating Rajasthan Royals in the Final by 7 wickets. Gujarat\u2019s captain Hardik Pandya was the man of the final with his sensational all-round performance. The picture of the day was Natasa Stankovic\u2019s emotional hug to Hardik Pandya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3075,143,144],"class_list":["post-20071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ipl","tag-gujarat-titans","tag-hardik-pandya","tag-natasa-stankovic"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20071","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\/251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}