{"id":53761,"date":"2025-07-27T17:36:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T17:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/27\/ind-vs-eng-stokes-offers-handshake-to-draw-but-india-say-no-what-really-happened\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T17:36:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T17:36:27","slug":"ind-vs-eng-stokes-offers-handshake-to-draw-but-india-say-no-what-really-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/27\/ind-vs-eng-stokes-offers-handshake-to-draw-but-india-say-no-what-really-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"IND vs ENG: Stokes offers handshake to draw; but India say no &#8211; what really happened?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the fourth Test at Old Trafford, England captain Ben Stokes offered a handshake to signal a draw, but Indian batters Ravindra Jadeja and Washington Sundar declined, surprising Stokes. Both were approaching centuries, and India, in a dominant position, chose to continue batting. Stokes&#8217;s reaction showed frustration as the game continued, highlighting India&#8217;s assertive play and focus on personal milestones.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the fourth Test at Old Trafford, England captain Ben Stokes offered a handshake to signal a draw, but Indian batters Ravindra Jadeja and Washington Sundar declined, surprising Stokes. Both were approaching centuries, and India, in a dominant position, chose to continue batting. Stokes&#8217;s reaction showed frustration as the game continued, highlighting India&#8217;s assertive play&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/27\/ind-vs-eng-stokes-offers-handshake-to-draw-but-india-say-no-what-really-happened\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IND vs ENG: Stokes offers handshake to draw; but India say no &#8211; what really happened?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":53762,"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\/53761"}],"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=53761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}