{"id":97974,"date":"2019-06-18T15:39:19","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T13:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/06\/18\/the-spin-india-v-pakistan-a-rivalry-in-which-players-are-kept-apart\/"},"modified":"2019-06-18T15:39:19","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T13:39:19","slug":"the-spin-india-v-pakistan-a-rivalry-in-which-players-are-kept-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=97974","title":{"rendered":"The Spin | India v Pakistan: a rivalry in which players are kept apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The physical distance between the two cricket teams in recent years has created an emotional distance tooWhen Yuvraj Singh, the Indian all-rounder with balls and bravado, ice-cold chaser and hot-flush finisher, announced his retirement last week \u2013 there was a flood of love on social media. Not only from his brothers in blue \u2013 Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli \u2013 but his cousins the other side of the great partition: Shoaib Malik and Shoaib Akhtar.Yuvraj, whose career included India\u2019s world T20 win in 2007 and their 2011 World Cup victory, as well as a cancer diagnosis and a subsequent recovery, made all of his three Test centuries against Pakistan, one in Lahore, one in Karachi and one on home soil in Bengaluru. And of his 304 one-day games, 38 were against them, 12 actually in Pakistan. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/blog\/2019\/jun\/18\/the-spin-india-pakistan-rivalry-in-which-players-are-kept-apart\" target=\"_blank\">The Spin | India v Pakistan: a rivalry in which players are kept apart<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The physical distance between the two cricket teams in recent years has created an emotional distance tooWhen Yuvraj Singh, the Indian all-rounder with balls and bravado, ice-cold chaser and hot-flush finisher, announced his retirement last week \u2013 there was a flood of love on social media. Not only from his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}