{"id":109156,"date":"2026-05-12T13:36:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/a-mature-captain-never-ex-india-cricketer-questions-axar-patels-leadership\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T13:36:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:36:42","slug":"a-mature-captain-never-ex-india-cricketer-questions-axar-patels-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/a-mature-captain-never-ex-india-cricketer-questions-axar-patels-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A mature captain never &#8230; &#8216;: Ex-India cricketer questions Axar Patel\u2019s leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mohammad Kaif criticized Axar Patel for publicly singling out teammate Kuldeep Yadav during Delhi Capitals&#8217; challenging IPL 2026 season. Kaif emphasized that experienced captains avoid public criticism, especially of proven performers like Kuldeep, advocating for team-focused accountability instead.  Despite this, Axar played a crucial captain&#8217;s knock in a recent win.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mohammad Kaif criticized Axar Patel for publicly singling out teammate Kuldeep Yadav during Delhi Capitals&#8217; challenging IPL 2026 season. Kaif emphasized that experienced captains avoid public criticism, especially of proven performers like Kuldeep, advocating for team-focused accountability instead. Despite this, Axar played a crucial captain&#8217;s knock in a recent win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":109157,"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\/109156"}],"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=109156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}