{"id":423702,"date":"2026-01-19T17:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T17:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/423702\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T17:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T17:58:08","slug":"rock-and-roll-it-podcast-kohli-kingly-but-india-have-sweeping-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/423702\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock and Roll it podcast: Kohli kingly but India have sweeping issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/team\/new-zealand-5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Zealand<\/a> have finally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/series\/new-zealand-in-india-2025-26-1490228\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">broken their ODI-series duck<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/team\/india-6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">India<\/a>, and along the way exposed worrying issues in India&#8217;s white-ball cricket. Are India&#8217;s spinners struggling to counter batters who play the sweep? Why don&#8217;t India&#8217;s batters employ that shot more often? How did a severely depleted New Zealand side manage to beat a far-less-depleted India in their own conditions? And is it the end for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/ravindra-jadeja-234675\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ravindra Jadeja<\/a> and&#8230; maybe, just maybe&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/rohit-sharma-34102\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rohit Sharma<\/a> too?<\/p>\n<p>But it wasn&#8217;t all doom and gloom for India, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/virat-kohli-253802\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Virat Kohli<\/a> continuing his incredible run of form, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/kl-rahul-422108\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KL Rahul<\/a> showing how good he is in the middle order, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/harshit-rana-1312645\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harshit Rana<\/a> answering his critics emphatically. Dustin Silgardo, Sidharth Monga and Karthik Krishnaswamy get together on the Rock and Roll It podcast to look back at an eventful ODI series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand have finally broken their ODI-series duck in India, and along the way exposed worrying issues in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-423702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}