{"id":83391,"date":"2026-01-02T02:36:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T02:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/02\/play-like-pujara-and-rahane-ex-india-batters-old-school-advice-amid-test-batting-chaos\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T02:36:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T02:36:03","slug":"play-like-pujara-and-rahane-ex-india-batters-old-school-advice-amid-test-batting-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/02\/play-like-pujara-and-rahane-ex-india-batters-old-school-advice-amid-test-batting-chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Play like Pujara and Rahane&#8217;: Ex-India batter&#8217;s old-school advice amid Test batting chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former India batter Robin Uthappa critiques the MCG Test pitch as seam-friendly but not unplayable, attributing struggles to modern batting&#8217;s lack of patience. He argues for a reset in expectations, suggesting 250 can be competitive with discipline, citing Pujara and Rahane as examples. Uthappa also lamented Joe Root&#8217;s struggles, reflecting a broader concern about Test cricket&#8217;s entertainment over endurance.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former India batter Robin Uthappa critiques the MCG Test pitch as seam-friendly but not unplayable, attributing struggles to modern batting&#8217;s lack of patience. He argues for a reset in expectations, suggesting 250 can be competitive with discipline, citing Pujara and Rahane as examples. Uthappa also lamented Joe Root&#8217;s struggles, reflecting a broader concern about Test&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/02\/play-like-pujara-and-rahane-ex-india-batters-old-school-advice-amid-test-batting-chaos\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Play like Pujara and Rahane&#8217;: Ex-India batter&#8217;s old-school advice amid Test batting chaos<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":83392,"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\/83391"}],"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=83391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}