{"id":30700,"date":"2021-02-04T14:36:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T15:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=30700"},"modified":"2021-02-04T16:02:52","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T16:02:52","slug":"babar-azams-cover-drive-beats-virat-kohli-in-iccs-twitter-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=30700","title":{"rendered":"Babar Azam\u2019s \u2018Cover Drive\u2019 beats Virat Kohli in ICC\u2019s Twitter Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Babar.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Karachi: Babar Azam&#8217;s cover drive has been voted &#8216;the best&#8217; of this generation in the International Cricket Council (ICC)&#8217;s Twitter poll.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the final results,\u00a0Pakistan&#8217;s right-handed batsman took 46% votes for his cover drive followed by Indian skipper Virat Kohli who was close enough with 45.9%. Kane Williamson and Joe Root received 7.1% and 1.1% votes respectively.<\/p>\n<p>As many as\u00a0260,143 Twitter users cast their votes. The contest between Babar and Kohli was tough till the last moment.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Who get&#039;s your vote?<\/p>\n<p>Reply with your answer if you have another player in mind ?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ICC (@ICC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ICC\/status\/1356976476395098117?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Babar is currently leading the Pakistan team in all three formats of the game. The 26-years-old batter has played 30 Tests, 77 ODIs, and 44 T20Is since his debut against Zimbabwe in 2015 in Lahore.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/he-showed-his-experience-babar-praises-nauman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018He showed his experience\u2019 skipper Babar Azam praises Nauman Ali<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Karachi: Babar Azam&#8217;s cover drive has been voted &#8216;the best&#8217; of this generation in the International Cricket Council (ICC)&#8217;s Twitter poll.\u00a0 According to the final <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=30700\" title=\"Babar Azam\u2019s \u2018Cover Drive\u2019 beats Virat Kohli in ICC\u2019s Twitter Poll\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30700"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30702,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30700\/revisions\/30702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}