{"id":6714,"date":"2023-06-26T14:42:12","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T09:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=327186"},"modified":"2023-06-26T14:42:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T09:12:12","slug":"candy-crush-saga-reports-more-than-3-million-downloads-within-3-hours-as-ms-dhonis-video-of-playing-the-game-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/candy-crush-saga-reports-more-than-3-million-downloads-within-3-hours-as-ms-dhonis-video-of-playing-the-game-goes-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"Candy Crush Saga reports more than 3 million downloads within 3 hours as MS Dhoni\u2019s video of playing the game goes viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the conclusion of the IPL 2023 season, Mahendra Singh Dhoni\u2019s popularity remains undiminished.<\/p>\n<p>A viral video surfaced showing the CSK captain playing Candy Crush on his tablet during a flight with Indigo Airlines, causing the game to trend on Twitter. Within three hours, over 3 million users downloaded the game in response.<\/p>\n<p>Reports suggested \u2013 3.6 million new downloads and attributing the surge to Dhoni. Known for his love of gaming, Dhoni\u2019s fondness for titles like Call of Duty and PUBG was revealed by Ishant Sharma in a YouTube interview.<\/p>\n<p>Dhoni recently underwent knee surgery and will begin rehabilitation in Ranchi. The CSK star, expressing a desire to gift fans one more IPL season, has not announced retirement plans. Dhoni\u2019s ongoing popularity endears him to fans, who eagerly await his return to the cricket field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the conclusion of the IPL 2023 season, Mahendra Singh Dhoni\u2019s popularity remains undiminished. A viral video surfaced showing the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":29630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[115,69],"class_list":["post-6714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-indigo","tag-ms-dhoni"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6714","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=6714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}