{"id":217663,"date":"2025-10-22T10:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T10:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/217663\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T10:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T10:48:07","slug":"virat-kohli-refuses-to-take-it-lying-down-ahead-of-adelaide-odi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/217663\/","title":{"rendered":"Virat Kohli refuses to take it lying down ahead of Adelaide ODI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Then came December 2014. In the first Test of the series, Kohli, standing in for an injured MS Dhoni, made his captaincy debut. What followed were twin centuries \u2014 115 and 141 \u2014 in a match remembered for Kohli\u2019s fearless counterattack against the Aussie quicks. A particularly hostile bouncer from Mitchell Johnson seemed to awaken something in him. He answered not with words, but with runs, launching into the likes of Johnson, Siddle, Harris, and Lyon with supreme intent. His 141 in the fourth innings \u2014 while chasing 364 \u2014 didn\u2019t result in a win, but it signalled the rise of a new kind of Indian leader, one who refused to settle for draws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Then came December 2014. In the first Test of the series, Kohli, standing in for an injured MS&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-217663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}