{"id":5174,"date":"2023-01-09T23:11:53","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T17:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=270366"},"modified":"2023-01-09T23:11:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T17:41:53","slug":"usman-khawaja-reveals-how-he-feels-after-missing-his-first-double-hundred-because-of-skipper-cummins-declaration-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/usman-khawaja-reveals-how-he-feels-after-missing-his-first-double-hundred-because-of-skipper-cummins-declaration-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Usman Khawaja reveals how he feels after missing his first double hundred because of skipper Cummins\u2019 declaration call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Usman Khawaja, a seasoned left-handed opener who scored 195 runs unbeaten in the drew Sydney Test match against South Africa, said it was crucial to put the team first. Khawaja was named Player of the Match for his performance. Khawaja\u2019s remarks follow Australia captain Pat Cummins\u2019 declaration of the first innings score at 475\/4, leaving Khawaja not out\u00a0at 195, five runs short of what would have been his first double century in Test cricket.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would love to have a double ton next to my name but at the end of the day it\u2019s a great way to showcase cricket and what cricket stands for. You want to go out there and you want to make milestones and achieve certain goals but at the end of the day it\u2019s about winning and you\u2019ve got to do what\u2019s best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think any children watching out there, or anyone watching how Australia plays their sport, it\u2019s always team first and I think that\u2019s very important when you are playing a team game,\u201d said Khawaja in the post-match presentation ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usman Khawaja, a seasoned left-handed opener who scored 195 runs unbeaten in the drew Sydney Test match against South Africa,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":28143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3431,607,216,1251],"class_list":["post-5174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-australia","tag-pat-cummins","tag-test","tag-usman-khawaja"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5174","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=5174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}