{"id":2477,"date":"2021-06-26T12:00:35","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T06:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=116399"},"modified":"2021-06-26T12:00:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T06:30:35","slug":"tim-paine-apologises-to-new-zealand-for-predicting-india-to-win-the-wtc-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/tim-paine-apologises-to-new-zealand-for-predicting-india-to-win-the-wtc-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Paine apologises to New Zealand for predicting India to win the WTC final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Paine, Australia\u2019s Test captain, has apologised to New Zealand for dismissing the Black Caps before their World Test Championship (WTC) victory against India.<\/p>\n<p>Paine claimed India would beat Kane Williamson\u2019s side \u201ccomfortably\u201d in the WTC final, only to be mocked on social media as New Zealand won by eight wickets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all get some wrong.\u201d Paine told New Zealand radio station Newstalk ZB, \u201cI copped a bit from the Kiwi fans, so I thought I\u2019d come on air and eat some humble pie.\u201d \u201cI think the New Zealanders performed admirably.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s always interesting to see how they go about doing things.\u00a0<span style=\"text-transform: initial\">I absolutely respect what the Kiwis achieve on an international scale for such a little nation \u2014 I\u2019m from Tasmania, which is obviously our smallest resource state and we punch above our weight \u2013 so I certainly respect what the Kiwis do.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s performance was outstanding as they were the better side in all the departments. Most probably the match was going to draw but the winning spirit of Kiwis turned the match in their favour.<\/p>\n<p>Despite losing skipper Virat Kohli after the first test and their entire first-choice pace attack to injury throughout the four-match series, Paine\u2019s Australia was defeated 2-1 by a severely depleted India during the home summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Paine, Australia\u2019s Test captain, has apologised to New Zealand for dismissing the Black Caps before their World Test Championship\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":25565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[691,164,389,466,1734],"class_list":["post-2477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-kane-williamson","tag-new-zealand","tag-sports","tag-tim-paine","tag-wtc-final"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477","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\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}