{"id":128771,"date":"2018-02-10T14:18:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-10T08:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=128771"},"modified":"2018-02-10T14:20:22","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T08:50:22","slug":"kohli-like-viv-richards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/kohli-like-viv-richards\/","title":{"rendered":"Kohli is like Viv Richards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former West Indies captain Alvin Kallicharran has spoken highly of Kohli and believes the Indian run machine is as ruthless as Windies great Sir Vivian Richards.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The attitude is strong in both. I am one person who wouldn&#8217;t like to compare players. But Kohli&#8217;s attitude is as ruthless as Viv&#8217;s was,&#8221; Kallicharan told.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kallicharan was all praise for Kohli&#8217;s hunger for runs and dubbed him a phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Kohli seems to have some of those qualities. He is a successful captain. As a batsman, he is a phenomenon. Always hungry. His consistency is tremendous,&#8221; said the former Windies skipper.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Untitled-1-copy-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-128772\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Untitled-1-copy-5.jpg\" alt=\"Kohli is like Viv Richards \" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Untitled-1-copy-5.jpg 800w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Untitled-1-copy-5-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;He (Kohli) looks like a very determined chap. The determination means you can make your own decisions. I don&#8217;t think India would ever have a captain like that. Except perhaps Kapil Dev.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kapil used to take decisions on his own and he was an exciting cricketer. Kohli now has brought a new brand of captaincy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former West Indies captain Alvin Kallicharran has spoken highly of Kohli and believes the Indian run machine is as ruthless as Windies great Sir Vivian Richards. &#8220;The attitude is strong in both. I am one person who wouldn&#8217;t like to compare players. But Kohli&#8217;s attitude is as ruthless as Viv&#8217;s was,&#8221; Kallicharan told. Kallicharan was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29609,2],"tags":[65831,19399,65830,7368,4937,65832],"class_list":["post-128771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports-news","category-top-stories","tag-alvin-kallicharran","tag-cricketer","tag-former-west-indies-captain","tag-kapil-dev","tag-kohli","tag-sir-vivian-richards"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/62844897.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128771","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=128771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}