{"id":2928,"date":"2012-03-04T10:17:09","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T10:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=2928"},"modified":"2012-03-04T10:17:09","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T10:17:09","slug":"sourav-ganguly-lauds-kohlis-century-against-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=2928","title":{"rendered":"Ganguly lauds Kohli\u2019s century against Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/cricket\/sourav-ganguly.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" Sourav Ganguly lauds Kohli\u2019s century against Lanka\" width=\"250\" style=\"float: left; border: 0; margin: 6px;\" \/><strong>New Delhi: <\/strong>Former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly lauded Virat Kohli for his blitzkrieg knock at Hobart against Sri Lanka in tri series and said that the knock was just unbelievable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust unbelievable! Virat Kohli\u2019s superlative knock and based on that India\u2019s unbelievable victory at Hobart had raised a hope but finally India haven\u2019t qualified for the tri-series finals,\u201d Ganguly wrote in a column of Deccan Chronicle.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough we are all pretty upset about it, deep inside we need to agree that the two best teams on form have qualified for the final showdown in the tournament,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Virat\u2019s exceptional knock of 133 in 86 balls helped India achieve an epic victory as they chased down a target of 321 within 37 overs.<br \/>Adding to it, Ganguly also wrote that Indian cricket is heading towards a downfall and it is required for the board to take stock of the situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the World Cup victory Indian cricket\u2019s fortunes have turned around massively and for me Indian cricket is at the crossroads and the selectors have a very important role to play from now on,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Indians have lost eight test matches in a row, a record which has not been achieved by Indian cricket in the near past and the selectors can\u2019t let this go unnoticed,\u201d said the former Indian skipper. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/cricket\/sourav-ganguly.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" Sourav Ganguly lauds Kohli\u2019s century against Lanka\" width=\"250\" style=\"float: left; border: 0; margin: 6px;\" \/><strong>New Delhi: <\/strong>Former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly lauded Virat Kohli for his blitzkrieg knock at Hobart against Sri Lanka in tri series and said that the knock was just unbelievable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust unbelievable! Virat Kohli\u2019s superlative knock and based on that India\u2019s unbelievable victory at Hobart had raised a hope but finally India haven\u2019t qualified for the tri-series finals,\u201d Ganguly wrote in a column of Deccan Chronicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[544,542],"class_list":["post-2928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-cricket-cricket","tag-sourav-ganguly","tag-virat-kohli"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ganguly lauds Kohli\u2019s century against Lanka - 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=2928\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ganguly lauds Kohli\u2019s century against Lanka - 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 Delhi: Former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly lauded Virat Kohli for his blitzkrieg knock at Hobart against Sri Lanka in tri series and said that the knock was just unbelievable. \u201cJust unbelievable! 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