{"id":20441,"date":"2023-03-31T15:55:34","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T10:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=294316"},"modified":"2023-03-31T15:55:34","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T10:25:34","slug":"ipl-2023-will-thursdays-thunderstorm-weather-impact-the-season-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2023-will-thursdays-thunderstorm-weather-impact-the-season-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2023: Will Thursday\u2019s thunderstorm weather impact the season opener?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The potential T20 captain for team India \u2013 Hardik Pandya will be leading his side Gujarat Titans as CSK heroes enter the soil of Ahmedabad for the season opener.<\/p>\n<p>While Hardik and company will be aiming at defending the championship trophy, veteran player MS Dhoni will surely look for a comeback after a tough season for CSK last year.<\/p>\n<p>The weather in Ahmedabad worsened just as everyone was anticipating the inaugural game of the IPL 2023 between the reigning champion Gujarat Titans and the four-time champion Chennai Super Kings on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The city experienced a typhoon and some significant rains on the night before the game. Anger-filled, dark rain clouds began to collect over the city, and what began as a drizzle strong enough to cancel both teams\u2019 practise practises quickly changed into a downpour.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Choosing the right rain snack \u2705<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WhenInGujarat?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WhenInGujarat<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WhistlePodu?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WhistlePodu<\/a> \ud83e\udd81\ud83d\udc9b <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FyskXh1URj\">pic.twitter.com\/FyskXh1URj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chennai Super Kings (@ChennaiIPL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChennaiIPL\/status\/1641490895122968590?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The potential T20 captain for team India \u2013 Hardik Pandya will be leading his side Gujarat Titans as CSK heroes\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":40993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3252],"class_list":["post-20441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl","tag-gt"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20441","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\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}