{"id":101030,"date":"2017-07-30T18:29:35","date_gmt":"2017-07-30T12:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=101030"},"modified":"2017-07-30T18:29:35","modified_gmt":"2017-07-30T12:59:35","slug":"after-sindu-it-is-mithali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/after-sindu-it-is-mithali\/","title":{"rendered":"After Sindu it is Mithali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A few years ago, bemoaning the lack of media coverage of women\u2019s cricket, Indian captain Mithali Raj had famously said: \u201cThere are generally no reporters at our matches, either to see our team\u2019s performances, or my dimples.\u201d Well, now they are triggering a mini-stampede among scribes and fans alike.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-101031 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/612750-mithali-raj-odi-pti82.jpg\" alt=\"    After Sindu it is Mithali\" width=\"574\" height=\"328\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At Delhi\u2019s Rail Bhawan, 600 raucous supporters could be heard shouting: \u201cMithali, Harman, Punam\u2026we are proud of you.\u201d Inside, close to a thousand were standing on tables and chairs trying to zoom in on the players with their mobile phones during a felicitation by the Railways.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It wasn\u2019t just journalists stepping over each other\u2019s toes to get a sound bite from the finalists, everyone wanted a slice of their reflected glory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">First stop, the sports minister\u2019s residence, then the BCCI felicitation at the Taj\u2019s rooftop restaurant, then mingling with fans at Rail Bhawan and then, well, the Prime Minister might also like a quick word with Mithali &amp; Co.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, bemoaning the lack of media coverage of women\u2019s cricket, Indian captain Mithali Raj had famously said: \u201cThere are generally no reporters at our matches, either to see our team\u2019s performances, or my dimples.\u201d Well, now they are triggering a mini-stampede among scribes and fans alike. At Delhi\u2019s Rail Bhawan, 600 raucous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29609,2],"tags":[50775,10729,50778,3242,488,50777,50776,50779],"class_list":["post-101030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports-news","category-top-stories","tag-after-sinhdu-it-is-mithali","tag-bcci","tag-captain-mithali-raj","tag-cricket","tag-delhi","tag-mithali","tag-sinhdu","tag-womens-cricket"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Sindhu-Mitali.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}