{"id":8428,"date":"2024-08-24T10:47:43","date_gmt":"2024-08-24T05:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=470220"},"modified":"2024-08-24T10:47:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-24T05:17:43","slug":"shikhar-dhawan-retirement-will-the-opening-batter-play-ipl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/shikhar-dhawan-retirement-will-the-opening-batter-play-ipl\/","title":{"rendered":"Shikhar Dhawan retirement: Will the opening batter play IPL?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shikhar Dhawan, team India\u2019s opening batsman, announced his retirement from the international and domestic circuit. Speaking about his IPL, he missed out on playing a major chunk of the IPL 2024. Shikhar led the Punjab Kings in the initial phase of the tournament before English all-rounder Sam Curran was allotted the captaincy duties.<\/p>\n<p>Shikhar\u2019s injury and subsequent struggle to bring back his fitness at its fullest has been a major setback for his future in IPL. He acknowledged that he is still recovering and have not yet reached 100%. This has indeed raised some concerns about his inability to perform at the highest level in a high-pressure tournament like the IPL.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, I got injured this IPL season and could not play for Punjab except for 4-5 matches. It takes time to recover. I am still healing. I have not recovered 100 per cent yet,\u201d said the Southpaw in an interview earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shikhar Dhawan, team India\u2019s opening batsman, announced his retirement from the international and domestic circuit. Speaking about his IPL, he\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":31260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8428","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\/175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}