{"id":108013,"date":"2017-10-04T19:24:35","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T13:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=108013"},"modified":"2017-10-04T19:24:35","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T13:54:35","slug":"kohli-named-cheeku-dhoni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/kohli-named-cheeku-dhoni\/","title":{"rendered":"Kohli was named Cheeku by Dhoni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dhoni is clever at naming his team mates. He makes them popular also by this. Virat Kohli, in a chat show along with Aamir Khan, cleared the air behind his nickname &#8216;Cheeku&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kohli was involved in a candid chat with the Bollywood star and brushed upon other aspects of his life as well, according to journalist Sameer Allana&#8217;s series of tweets last night. The show is yet to be televised.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-108014 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dc-Cover-3anfqgkl781ajqmbkvi8q3dcs4-20171004130213.Medi_.jpeg\" alt=\" Kohli was named Cheeku by Dhoni \" width=\"618\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dc-Cover-3anfqgkl781ajqmbkvi8q3dcs4-20171004130213.Medi_.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dc-Cover-3anfqgkl781ajqmbkvi8q3dcs4-20171004130213.Medi_-500x280.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dc-Cover-3anfqgkl781ajqmbkvi8q3dcs4-20171004130213.Medi_-768x430.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The incident Kohli credited his nickname to was of the time when he was coming up through the ranks in domestic cricket. He said that during his under-17 days, post a haircut which made &#8216;his ears look big&#8217;, his teammates and others had started calling him &#8216;Cheeku&#8217; as he resembled a rabbit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He further added that MS Dhoni picked it up and so did the stump-mic, making it the talk of the town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dhoni is clever at naming his team mates. He makes them popular also by this. Virat Kohli, in a chat show along with Aamir Khan, cleared the air behind his nickname &#8216;Cheeku&#8217;. Kohli was involved in a candid chat with the Bollywood star and brushed upon other aspects of his life as well, according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108015,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29609,2],"tags":[55024,404,5904,4937,55023,1688],"class_list":["post-108013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports-news","category-top-stories","tag-cheeku","tag-aamir-khan","tag-dhoni","tag-kohli","tag-kohli-was-named-cheeku-by-dhoni","tag-virat-kohli"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/e2-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108013","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=108013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}