{"id":3110,"date":"2012-03-10T07:30:25","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T07:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=3110"},"modified":"2012-03-10T07:30:25","modified_gmt":"2012-03-10T07:30:25","slug":"men-in-blue-leaves-for-asia-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=3110","title":{"rendered":"Men-In-Blue leave for Asia Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/cricket\/asia_cup.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: left; margin: 6px;\" \/><strong>Mumbai<\/strong>: The Indian squad left for Bangladesh by a morning flight to take part in the four-nation 11th Asia Cup starting on Sunday. The ultimate battle between two rivals India and Pakistan is set for  March 18, which would be the first meeting between the two sides since  last March in the World Cup semifinal at Mohali where India won before  clinching cricket&#8217;s showpiece event for the second time in their  history.<\/p>\n<p>The Asia Cup, in which each of the four teams meets every other team once in the league stage, concludes on March 22. Earlier, Dhoni and his men came back from the disastrous tour of Australia only a few days ago where they were knocked out of the triangular series after having been thrashed 0-4 in the preceding Test series by the home team.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Indian Sports News<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/cricket\/asia_cup.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: left; margin: 6px;\" \/><strong>Mumbai<\/strong>: The Indian squad left for Bangladesh by a morning flight to take part in the four-nation 11th Asia Cup starting on Sunday. The ultimate battle between two rivals India and Pakistan is set for  March 18, which would be the first meeting between the two sides since  last March in the World Cup semifinal at Mohali where India won before  clinching cricket&#8217;s showpiece event for the second time in their  history.<\/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":[1314],"class_list":["post-3110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-cricket-cricket","tag-asia-cup"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Men-In-Blue leave for Asia Cup - 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=3110\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Men-In-Blue leave for Asia Cup - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mumbai: The Indian squad left for Bangladesh by a morning flight to take part in the four-nation 11th Asia Cup starting on Sunday. 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