{"id":10430,"date":"2016-07-19T05:49:03","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T05:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/?p=10430"},"modified":"2016-07-19T05:49:03","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T05:49:03","slug":"team-india-meets-sir-vivian-richards-ahead-of-the-first-test-at-antigua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/19\/team-india-meets-sir-vivian-richards-ahead-of-the-first-test-at-antigua\/","title":{"rendered":"Team India meets Sir Vivian Richards ahead of the First Test at Antigua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Sir_Vivian_Richards.jpg\" alt=\"Board of Control for Cricket in India, West Indies Cricket Board, India's Tour of West Indies 2016, West Indies vs India, WICB, BCCI, WIvsIND, Virat Kohli, Jason Holder, Murali Vijay, Kohli, Rahane, Darren Bravo, Samuels, Ramdin, Ishant, Umesh, Ashwin, Jerome Taylor, Fidel Edwards, Kemar Roach, Phil Simmons, Anil Kumble, Sanjay Banger, Abhay Sharma\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Indian cricket team, post their arrival in Antigua &#8211; the venue for the first against the West Indies,\u00a0met up with legendary batsman Viv Richards.<\/p>\n<p>The likes of Virat Kohli, Shikhar Dhawan, Murali Vijay, Stuart Binny and Ajinkya Rahane were all seen having a discussion with the West Indian great, which is sure to inspire them ahead of the first Test at Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, North Sound, Antigua from July 21.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian Team\u00a0is touring the West Indies for a four-Test match series and is being led by Kohli.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian Test captain also had a one-on-one interaction with Richards and both were pictured have a profound discussion.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The King <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/vivrichards56?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@vivrichards56<\/a> and the Prince <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/imVkohli?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@imVkohli<\/a> together in Antigua. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Dt6jok46zI\">pic.twitter.com\/Dt6jok46zI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BCCI (@BCCI) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BCCI\/status\/755225636323659780?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 19, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A meeting to remember and cherish! Sir <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/vivrichards56?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@vivrichards56<\/a> meet Team India members in Antigua. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bRSJANMqlp\">pic.twitter.com\/bRSJANMqlp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BCCI (@BCCI) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BCCI\/status\/755203387839348736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 19, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Shikhar Dhawan posted a picture of his meeting with the batting great and seemed to be a content man.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Enjoyed having little discussion with Great Sir viv richards!!! Still feeling so happy!!??? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/v2bHAgB8Cd\">pic.twitter.com\/v2bHAgB8Cd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Shikhar Dhawan (@SDhawan25) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SDhawan25\/status\/755227625413566464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 19, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian cricket team, post their arrival in Antigua &#8211; the venue for the first against the West Indies,\u00a0met up with legendary batsman Viv Richards. The likes of Virat Kohli, Shikhar Dhawan, Murali Vijay, Stuart Binny and Ajinkya Rahane were all seen having a discussion with the West Indian great, which is sure to inspire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1924,"featured_media":10431,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,70,8,170,140],"tags":[323,1000,152,1019,10,1337,1249,304,1258,469,1459,118,1025,1247,1356,409,765],"class_list":["post-10430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket-analysis","category-featured","category-interesting-stories","category-cricket-news","category-updates","tag-ajinkya-rahane","tag-anil-kumble","tag-bcci","tag-board-of-control-for-cricket-in-india","tag-cricket","tag-indias-tour-of-west-indies-2016","tag-jason-holder","tag-murali-vijay","tag-phil-simmons","tag-shikhar-dhawan","tag-stuart-binny","tag-virat-kohli","tag-viv-richards","tag-west-indies-cricket-board","tag-west-indies-vs-india","tag-wicb","tag-wivsind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1924"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10432,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10430\/revisions\/10432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}