{"id":4256,"date":"2022-08-29T13:35:55","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T08:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=241589"},"modified":"2022-08-29T13:35:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T08:05:55","slug":"asia-cup-union-minister-for-sports-anurag-thakur-congratulates-team-india-for-the-nail-biting-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/asia-cup-union-minister-for-sports-anurag-thakur-congratulates-team-india-for-the-nail-biting-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia Cup: Union Minister for Sports Anurag Thakur congratulates team India for the \u201cnail-biting\u201d victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anurag Thakur, the Union Minister for Sports, praised the Indian team on Monday for defeating Pakistan by a margin of five wickets in the opening game of the 2022 Asia Cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat a win for our #TeamIndia in this nail biting match against arch rivals!! Congratulations for a flying start in Asia cup. #INDvsPAK,\u201d tweeted Thakur.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What a win for our <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TeamIndia?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TeamIndia<\/a> in this nail biting match against arch rivals!!<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations for a flying start in Asia cup. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/INDvsPAK?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#INDvsPAK<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j93TOmBGkY\">pic.twitter.com\/j93TOmBGkY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Anurag Thakur (@ianuragthakur) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ianuragthakur\/status\/1563964688039542784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 28, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Since it was against Pakistan\u2019s archrival, India won their opening game of the Asia Cup 2022, which was considered to be one of the most important games. India had five wickets remaining when they completed the 148-run mark. The Player of the Match was announced to be Hardik Pandya. Every Indian supporter in the world is now celebrating thanks to Hardik Pandya\u2019s outstanding performance. After a long time, India and Pakistan played a match that was so tight that both teams had equal chances of winning until Pandya scored six to end it in the \u201cBlue\u2019s Way\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anurag Thakur, the Union Minister for Sports, praised the Indian team on Monday for defeating Pakistan by a margin of\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":27275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1364,1585],"class_list":["post-4256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-anurag-thakur","tag-asia-cup"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4256","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=4256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}