{"id":119979,"date":"2017-12-26T11:24:58","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T05:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=119979"},"modified":"2017-12-26T11:24:58","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T05:54:58","slug":"36dhoni-plays-like-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/36dhoni-plays-like-26\/","title":{"rendered":"At 36,Dhoni plays like 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shastri has come out in the open and slammed Dhoni\u2019s doubter saying the World Cup-winning captain can outmatch players 10 years younger to him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shastri said, \u201cWe are not stupid. I have been watching this sport for the last 30-40 years. Virat has been a part of this team for a decade now.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We know, at this age, he (Dhoni) can beat players aged 26. People who talk, forget that they played the game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-119980 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/shastri-dhoni.jpg\" alt=\"At 36,Dhoni plays like 26\" width=\"628\" height=\"355\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was just last week that BCCI Chairman of Selectors\u2019 MSK Prasad backed Dhoni till the 2019 World Cup 2019, a sentiment backed by Shastri as well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said, \u201cIf they look at themselves in the mirror and ask the question, \u2018what they were at the age of 36?\u2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Would they have run two runs faster? But the time they finish two, this guy will run three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shastri has come out in the open and slammed Dhoni\u2019s doubter saying the World Cup-winning captain can outmatch players 10 years younger to him. Shastri said, \u201cWe are not stupid. I have been watching this sport for the last 30-40 years. Virat has been a part of this team for a decade now. We know, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119981,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29609,2],"tags":[61509,61512,61511,6450,56078,6309,1688,61510,61508],"class_list":["post-119979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports-news","category-top-stories","tag-10-years-younger","tag-age-of-36","tag-bcci-chairman-of-selectors","tag-ms-dhoni","tag-msk-prasad","tag-ravi-shastri","tag-virat-kohli","tag-world-cup-2019","tag-world-cup-winning-captain"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/cricket-fourth-lanka-india-international-match-sri_03e7320c-8f1d-11e7-af36-115e347150c8.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119979","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=119979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}