{"id":2063,"date":"2021-02-05T19:33:48","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T14:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=91841"},"modified":"2021-02-05T19:33:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T14:03:48","slug":"ind-vs-eng-virat-kohlis-spirit-of-cricket-gesture-for-joe-root-wins-hearts-on-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ind-vs-eng-virat-kohlis-spirit-of-cricket-gesture-for-joe-root-wins-hearts-on-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"IND vs ENG: Virat Kohli\u2019s spirit of cricket gesture for Joe Root wins hearts on internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s captain Virat Kohli\u2019s heartwarming gesture to England captain Joe Root just before last minutes of the play on day one of the opening Test has won hearts on internet.<\/p>\n<p>After smashing a six off Ravichandran Ashwin\u2019s last ball of the 87<sup>th<\/sup> over Root went down on the floor with a spasm. England Physio was out to help the skipper but he reached, it was India skipper but before he reached, it was India\u2019s skipper Kohli who assisted Root with stretching of his right leg.<\/p>\n<p>This \u2018spirit of cricket\u2019 gesture by Kohli won the hearts of the fans.<\/p>\n<p>BCCI also shared the clip on Twitter captioning it as \u201c#SpiritOfCricket at its very best\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SpiritOfCricket?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SpiritOfCricket<\/a> at its very best \ud83d\ude0a\ud83d\ude0a<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/INDvENG?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#INDvENG<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Paytm?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Paytm<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/imVkohli?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@imVkohli<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vaEdH29VXo\">pic.twitter.com\/vaEdH29VXo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BCCI (@BCCI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BCCI\/status\/1357650727460474880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 5, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the heat of battle there is always room for sportsmanship\u201d tweeted by England Cricket on Friday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In the heat of battle there is always room for sportsmanship.<\/p>\n<p>Today's scorecard: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gEBlUSOuYe\">https:\/\/t.co\/gEBlUSOuYe<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/INDvENG?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#INDvENG<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3qJ3X8DMrz\">pic.twitter.com\/3qJ3X8DMrz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 England Cricket (@englandcricket) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/englandcricket\/status\/1357657729410736136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 5, 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>India\u2019s captain Virat Kohli\u2019s heartwarming gesture to England captain Joe Root just before last minutes of the play on day\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":25161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[350],"class_list":["post-2063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-joe-root"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063","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\/132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}