{"id":131026,"date":"2026-08-29T11:35:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T11:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/29\/he-chose-cricket-over-olympic-gold-with-dhyan-chand-mj-gopalan-played-just-1-test\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T11:35:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T11:35:47","slug":"he-chose-cricket-over-olympic-gold-with-dhyan-chand-mj-gopalan-played-just-1-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/29\/he-chose-cricket-over-olympic-gold-with-dhyan-chand-mj-gopalan-played-just-1-test\/","title":{"rendered":"He chose cricket over Olympic gold with Dhyan Chand: MJ Gopalan played just 1 Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MJ Gopalan found himself at a crossroads in 1936, forced to choose between the promise of Olympic hockey and a cricket tour. He chose cricket, which meant missing out on the Olympic gold as India&#8217;s hockey squad achieved greatness. Though his first-class statistics were impressive, Gopalan&#8217;s international experience was limited to a single Test appearance.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MJ Gopalan found himself at a crossroads in 1936, forced to choose between the promise of Olympic hockey and a cricket tour. He chose cricket, which meant missing out on the Olympic gold as India&#8217;s hockey squad achieved greatness. Though his first-class statistics were impressive, Gopalan&#8217;s international experience was limited to a single Test appearance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":131027,"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\/131026"}],"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=131026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}