{"id":24838,"date":"2015-12-24T05:22:04","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T05:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=24838"},"modified":"2015-12-24T05:22:04","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T05:22:04","slug":"new-zealand-captain-brendon-mccullum-wins-icc-spirit-of-cricket-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=24838","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum wins ICC Spirit of Cricket Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-21521\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Brendon-McCullum-26.jpg\" width=\"260\" height=\"164\" alt=\"Brendon McCullum 26\" style=\"margin: 4px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Brendon-McCullum-26.jpg 260w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Brendon-McCullum-26-150x95.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum has won the ICC Spirit of Cricket Award for inspiring his side to play the game in its true spirit. This was clearly evident throughout the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015, and in particular in the semi-final where McCullum showed humility and exemplary sportsmanship by inviting de Villiers and his side to the New Zealand&rsquo;s dressing room after a closely-fought match.<\/p>\n<p>McCullum said: &ldquo;The team has loved how the New Zealand public and cricket fans from around the world have responded to the way we&rsquo;ve played our cricket in the last 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think the Spirit of Cricket is hugely important and I feel extremely honoured to have received the award. It does take buy in from the entire team though and the rest of the BLACKCAPS squad needs to be recognized for this as well.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-21521\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Brendon-McCullum-26.jpg\" width=\"260\" height=\"164\" alt=\"Brendon McCullum 26\" style=\"margin: 4px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Brendon-McCullum-26.jpg 260w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Brendon-McCullum-26-150x95.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum has won the ICC Spirit of Cricket Award for inspiring his side to play the game in its true spirit. This was clearly evident throughout the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015, and in particular in the semi-final where McCullum showed humility and exemplary sportsmanship by inviting de Villiers and his side to the New Zealand&rsquo;s dressing room after a closely-fought match.<\/p>\n<p>McCullum said: &ldquo;The team has loved how the New Zealand public and cricket fans from around the world have responded to the way we&rsquo;ve played our cricket in the last 12 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1710,4744,6460,13281,13282],"class_list":["post-24838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world-cricket-news","tag-brendon-mccullum","tag-cricket-news","tag-icc-awards","tag-icc-spirit-of-cricket-award","tag-new-zealand-captain-brendon-mccullum"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum wins ICC Spirit of Cricket Award - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=24838\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum wins ICC Spirit of Cricket Award - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum has won the ICC Spirit of Cricket Award for inspiring his side to play the game in its true spirit. 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