{"id":8324,"date":"2016-05-18T08:06:40","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T08:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/?p=8324"},"modified":"2016-05-18T08:06:40","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T08:06:40","slug":"yuvraj-singh-is-my-idol-krunal-pandya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/18\/yuvraj-singh-is-my-idol-krunal-pandya\/","title":{"rendered":"YUVRAJ SINGH is my Idol &#8211; KRUNAL PANDYA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Yuvraj Singh is my Idol says Krunal Pandya<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/krunal.jpg\" alt=\"krunal\" width=\"535\" height=\"428\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p>Mumbai Indians\u2019 Krunal Pandya is one of the emerging talents in IPL 2016 just like his brother Hardik Pandya was in the last season of IPL. Krunal has impressed one and all with his incredible hitting skills with the high back lift and glorious bat swing, in fact in one of the match Michael Hussey compared his bat swing and flourish with the legendary Brian Charles lara. Krunal along with his amazing batting skills has impressed everyone with his effective left-arm orthodox too.<\/p>\n<p>Such has been Krunal\u2019s impact that he has replaced his brother Hardik Pandya as both of them are all-rounders and Mumbai Indians had to make this call to balance their side. although one brother has taken the place of another but there is not any love lost between the two as we saw from the gesture of Krunal after reaching his 50 against the Daredevils which was directed to Hardik as he opened up about it in the presentation ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>After a match-winning performance against Delhi Daredevils, Mumbai Indians\u2019 emerging all-rounder Krunal Pandya on Tuesday said he idolises the Prince of Indian Cricket Yuvraj Singh.<\/p>\n<p>Krunal said he used to watch the batting style of Yuvraj and always looks to imitate him. \u00a0On Sunday, Krunal smashed 86 off just 37 balls and also picked up two crucial wickets to help the\u00a0defending champions Mumbai Indians won the match and keep the Indian Premier League (IPL) playoff hopes alive.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cI used to watch Yuvraj Singh and I am a\u00a0big fan of Yuvraj Singh, so I like him and I idolise him.\u201d Krunal told reporters.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yuvraj Singh is my Idol says Krunal Pandya Mumbai Indians\u2019 Krunal Pandya is one of the emerging talents in IPL 2016 just like his brother Hardik Pandya was in the last season of IPL. Krunal has impressed one and all with his incredible hitting skills with the high back lift and glorious bat swing, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1924,"featured_media":8326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[599,70,8,170,140],"tags":[601,724,604,293,117],"class_list":["post-8324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl2016","category-featured","category-interesting-stories","category-cricket-news","category-updates","tag-ipl-2016","tag-krunal-pandya","tag-live-blog","tag-mumbai-indians","tag-yuvraj-singh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8324","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=8324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8328,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8324\/revisions\/8328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}