{"id":101179,"date":"2026-04-02T07:35:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T07:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/to-chase-or-to-defend-what-ipl-2026-early-trends-suggest-after-1st-round\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T07:35:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T07:35:44","slug":"to-chase-or-to-defend-what-ipl-2026-early-trends-suggest-after-1st-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/to-chase-or-to-defend-what-ipl-2026-early-trends-suggest-after-1st-round\/","title":{"rendered":"To chase or to defend? What IPL 2026 early trends suggest after 1st round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IPL 2026 is witnessing a dominant trend of chasing teams emerging victorious in all five matches played so far. Despite varying total scores, from high-scoring contests to modest ones, the team batting second has consistently clinched the win. This pattern, particularly under lights, raises questions about the toss&#8217;s growing importance and the potential challenges for bowlers as the tournament progresses.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IPL 2026 is witnessing a dominant trend of chasing teams emerging victorious in all five matches played so far. Despite varying total scores, from high-scoring contests to modest ones, the team batting second has consistently clinched the win. This pattern, particularly under lights, raises questions about the toss&#8217;s growing importance and the potential challenges for&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/to-chase-or-to-defend-what-ipl-2026-early-trends-suggest-after-1st-round\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">To chase or to defend? What IPL 2026 early trends suggest after 1st round<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":101180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}