{"id":307831,"date":"2019-01-07T04:40:41","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T04:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307831"},"modified":"2019-01-07T04:40:41","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T04:40:41","slug":"india-win-maiden-test-series-beat-australia-2-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-win-maiden-test-series-beat-australia-2-1\/","title":{"rendered":"India win Maiden Test series, beat Australia 2-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-307832 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/india-1-300x182.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/india-1-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/india-1-768x467.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/india-1-696x423.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/india-1-691x420.jpg 691w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/india-1.jpg 824w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Indian cricket team on Monday won a historic first ever Test series in Australia after a fourth and final game at Sydney cricket ground was declared a draw due to incessant rain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">BCCI tweeted, \u201c4th Test. It&#8217;s all over! Match Drawn.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cPlay has been called off in Sydney and the fourth Test ends in a draw. India retain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy with a historic 2-1 series win!,\u201d ICC tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cFor his 521 runs, with three centuries in four Tests, Cheteshwar Pujara is Player of the Series!\u201d ICC added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">After winning the test match, Virat Kohli said, &#8220;I\u2019ve never been more proud to be part of a team than this one right here. They make the captain look good.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Australia was at 6\/0 and were trailing by 316 runs while following-on. This is the first time since 2005 that Australia is following-on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Wins in Adelaide and Melbourne had given Virat Kohli\u2019s side a 2-1 lead going into the final Test and he became the first Asian captain to win a Test series in Australia.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian cricket team on Monday won a historic first ever Test series in Australia after a fourth and final game at Sydney cricket ground was declared a draw due to incessant rain. BCCI tweeted, \u201c4th Test. It&#8217;s all over! Match Drawn.\u201d \u201cPlay has been called off in Sydney and the fourth Test ends in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":307832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[2123,574,10514],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307831"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307833,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307831\/revisions\/307833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/307832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}