Ravindra Jadeja dismissed Ben Stokes’ pitch tampering accusations as mind games after a heated exchange during the second Test at Edgbaston. The incident arose after Chris Woakes complained about Jadeja allegedly damaging the pitch’s danger area. Jadeja, who scored a crucial 89 in India’s dominant 587, defended his actions, stating his focus was on batting, not altering the pitch.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ravindra Jadeja dismissed Ben Stokes’ pitch tampering accusations as mind games after a heated exchange during the second Test at Edgbaston. The incident arose after Chris Woakes complained about Jadeja allegedly damaging the pitch’s danger area. Jadeja, who scored a crucial 89 in India’s dominant 587, defended his actions, stating his focus was on batting,… Read More »2nd Test: Jadeja hits back at Stokes – ‘Why would I do that? My focus was on batting’<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":49202,"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\/49201"}],"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=49201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}