{"id":5632,"date":"2023-02-28T19:21:33","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T13:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=284549"},"modified":"2023-02-28T19:21:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T13:51:33","slug":"people-who-do-not-understand-the-game-of-cricket-former-pakistani-skipper-backs-virat-kohli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/people-who-do-not-understand-the-game-of-cricket-former-pakistani-skipper-backs-virat-kohli\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPeople who do not understand the game of cricket\u2026,\u201d former Pakistani skipper backs Virat Kohli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Pakistan captain Salman Butt has backed Virat Kohli\u2019s contention that he has been labelled a failed captain solely on the basis of India\u2019s performance in ICC tournaments while captaining the team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople who do not understand the game of cricket very well judge a captain\u2019s performance based on how he has fared in the Champions Trophy or the World Cup. However, if you have a good win percentage and are tactically very strong, but haven\u2019t won a big tournament, it wouldn\u2019t be fair to say that you haven\u2019t been a good captain,\u201d Butt said on his YouTube channel.<\/p>\n<p>He further added, \u201cThere might have been a few mistakes in high-pressure games, or it might just have been a case of luck. Not winning an ICC tournament doesn\u2019t tell us that he [Virat Kohli] wasn\u2019t a strong leader,\u201d added Butt.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ie-int-campign-ad\">\n<div id=\"gpt_ad_IE_ROS_INT_CAMP_DESK\" class=\"ad-slot \" data-google-query-id=\"CJfQqeaquP0CFWiS2AUdDvgJdQ\">\n<div id=\"andbeyond3001\" data-google-query-id=\"CNG1hKytuP0CFWICtwAdWEQNBQ\" data-adloox-type=\"slot\" data-adloox-sid=\"38503306549\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Pakistan captain Salman Butt has backed Virat Kohli\u2019s contention that he has been labelled a failed captain solely on\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":28574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3424],"class_list":["post-5632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-pakistan"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5632","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=5632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}