{"id":100903,"date":"2026-02-14T19:08:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T14:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=100903"},"modified":"2026-02-14T19:08:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T14:08:29","slug":"surya-kumar-confident-ahead-of-high-voltage-clash-against-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/surya-kumar-confident-ahead-of-high-voltage-clash-against-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Surya Kumar confident ahead of high-voltage clash against Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COLOMBO: Indian captain <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/surya-kumar-in-hot-water-over-controversial-post-match-statement\/\">Surya Kumar<\/a> expressed confidence in his team&#8217;s preparations before the match against Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>During a press conference in Colombo, the Indian captain said that Pakistan&#8217;s spin attack is very strong and the strategy has been prepared keeping this in mind.<\/p>\n<p>He said that we have made regular plans about the Pakistani players and our batters are playing responsibly.<\/p>\n<p>Surya Kumar Yadav added that pressure is natural in big matches but the team&#8217;s focus is on playing positive cricket.<\/p>\n<p>He clarified that the players will take to the field with complete concentration and will try to perform their best in every department.<\/p>\n<p>When asked by a journalist about the handshake after the match, the Indian captain smiled and replied, &#8220;Wait a bit, eat good bread, tomorrow we will know what is going to happen.&#8221; His answer caused laughter among the journalists present at the press conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLOMBO: Indian captain Surya Kumar expressed confidence in his team&#8217;s preparations before the match against Pakistan. During a press conference in Colombo, the Indian captain said that Pakistan&#8217;s spin attack is very strong and the strategy has been prepared keeping this in mind. He said that we have made regular plans about the Pakistani players [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":100904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2449,301,35588,364,35587],"class_list":["post-100903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-bcci","tag-icc","tag-pakistani-players","tag-pcb","tag-surya-kumar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100905,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100903\/revisions\/100905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}