{"id":4333,"date":"2022-08-31T16:02:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T10:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=242421"},"modified":"2022-08-31T16:03:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T10:33:40","slug":"he-has-become-calm-like-dhoni-can-captain-india-too-veteran-harbhajan-singh-hails-this-indian-all-rounder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/he-has-become-calm-like-dhoni-can-captain-india-too-veteran-harbhajan-singh-hails-this-indian-all-rounder\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHe has become calm like Dhoni, can captain India too,\u201d Veteran Harbhajan Singh hails this Indian all-rounder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former India spinner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/news\/topic\/harbhajan-singh\/\">Harbhajan Singh<\/a> hailed<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/news\/topic\/hardik-pandya\/\"> Hardik Pandya<\/a> for his fantastic all-around performance against Pakistan in the Asia Cup 2022 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Pandya excelled with the bat and the ball as India defeated their arch-rivals by five wickets to start the tournament on a victorious note.<\/p>\n<p>Harbhajan Singh praised the brilliant all-rounder for his match-winning feats and compared him to the legendary MS Dhoni. He also endorsed him to follow<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/news\/topic\/dhoni\/\"> Dhoni<\/a> as<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/news\/topic\/india\/\"> India\u2019s<\/a> captain in the future. In the final over of India\u2019s run chase, with six runs needed off the final three balls, Hardik displayed Dhoni-like composure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe should, and I believe he will, become captain. He has recently displayed a different avatar. He has become a calm and serene figure akin to MS Dhoni. He is batting extremely well and is quite confident in his ability,\u201d\u00a0Harbhajan Singh stated on SportsTak.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen he goes out to bat, there is a different level of swag. He has worked so hard and returned to action that he knows he will be able to do the job and win games for India,\u201d\u00a0Harbhajan said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do see him becoming captain of India. The way he showcased his temperament during the match against Pakistan, and during the IPL as well, was brilliant. I think he has got all the capabilities to be the national team\u2019s captain going forward,\u201d\u00a0he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former India spinner Harbhajan Singh hailed Hardik Pandya for his fantastic all-around performance against Pakistan in the Asia Cup 2022\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":27352,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[99,143,69],"class_list":["post-4333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-harbhajan-singh","tag-hardik-pandya","tag-ms-dhoni"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4333","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=4333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}