{"id":8462,"date":"2014-09-04T18:39:05","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T18:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=8462"},"modified":"2014-09-04T18:39:05","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T18:39:05","slug":"india-can-defend-the-world-cup-gavaskar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=8462","title":{"rendered":"India can defend the World Cup: Gavaskar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Former cricket captain and legend Sunil Gavaskar feels that defending champions India are a good enough side to retain the title in the 2015 World Cup, co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand, Feb 14-March 29, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Gavaskar, who had blasted the team after the 1-3 humiliating loss in the Test series against England, praised Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Co. for making a stunning turnaround by winning the ODI series 3-0 with still a match to go. It was India&#8217;s first bilateral ODI series win in England since 1990.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The team is handling itself a lot better overseas (in ODIs),&#8221; said Gavaskar adding that the current form should be good enough for the side to defend World Cup title.<\/p>\n<p>Gavaskar, however, warned that &#8220;Test performances count for a lot in international cricket as well&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Former cricket captain and legend Sunil Gavaskar feels that defending champions India are a good enough side to retain the title in the 2015 World Cup, co-hosted by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=8462\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729],"tags":[1429,1430,2167,2168,445],"class_list":["post-8462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india-talks","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-news","tag-indian-cricket","tag-indian-news","tag-world-cup","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}