{"id":98090,"date":"2026-03-18T05:35:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T05:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/disease-in-indian-cricket-ashwin-raises-concerns-over-fan-armies-ecosystem\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T05:35:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T05:35:52","slug":"disease-in-indian-cricket-ashwin-raises-concerns-over-fan-armies-ecosystem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/disease-in-indian-cricket-ashwin-raises-concerns-over-fan-armies-ecosystem\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Disease in Indian cricket&#8217;: Ashwin raises concerns over fan armies &#8216;ecosystem&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cricket icon Ravichandran Ashwin has voiced strong concerns about &#8216;fan armies&#8217; on social media, labelling their influence a &#8216;disease.&#8217; He believes these organized narratives, often focusing on individuals over team performance, are shifting focus away from the game itself. Ashwin shared his personal experience with criticism after analyzing Shubman Gill&#8217;s dismissals, highlighting the shift towards a superstar-driven culture.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cricket icon Ravichandran Ashwin has voiced strong concerns about &#8216;fan armies&#8217; on social media, labelling their influence a &#8216;disease.&#8217; He believes these organized narratives, often focusing on individuals over team performance, are shifting focus away from the game itself. Ashwin shared his personal experience with criticism after analyzing Shubman Gill&#8217;s dismissals, highlighting the shift towards&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/disease-in-indian-cricket-ashwin-raises-concerns-over-fan-armies-ecosystem\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Disease in Indian cricket&#8217;: Ashwin raises concerns over fan armies &#8216;ecosystem&#8217;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":98091,"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\/98090"}],"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=98090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}