{"id":493279,"date":"2023-11-05T13:42:38","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T08:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=493279"},"modified":"2023-11-05T13:42:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T08:12:44","slug":"virat-kohli-birthday-sand-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/sports-news\/virat-kohli-birthday-sand-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik makes stunning sand sculpture in Puri to wish Virat Kohli on his 35th birthday | See here"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Indian star batter Virat Kohli turned 35 today. Along with fans and friends, everyone, including politicians and celebrities, expressed their love and best wishes for the Indian skipper. Fans are astonished that one wish, though, required much more than just entering on a keyboard. On this occasion, renowned Puri, Odisha artist Sudarsan Pattnaik made a masterpiece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a video that has gone viral on social media, Patnaik celebrated Kohli&#8217;s birthdate by creating a sand sculpture of him and writing the words Happy Birth Day&nbsp;beneath it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The enclosure is vibrant in and of itself. He is dressed in the men&#8217;s blue uniform of Team India, which is a brilliant blue jersey. He has a clean haircut and a signature beard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WATCH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WATCH<\/a> | Odisha: Sand artist Sudarshan Patnaik created a sand sculpture of Indian cricketer Virat Kohli on the occasion of his birthday, in Puri. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AT8KBA08Ek\">pic.twitter.com\/AT8KBA08Ek<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ANI (@ANI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANI\/status\/1721007055589478518?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 5, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The video was shared on X, formerly known as Twitter.\u00a0Odisha: On the eve of Indian batsman Virat Kohli&#8217;s birthday, sand artist Sudarshan Patnaik sculpted the cricketer in Puri.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With over 119K views since it was released, the video&nbsp;has become extremely popular. Happy birthday to the cricket virtuoso, Virat Kohli, an X user wrote. Another user wrote, may your year be full of runs, victories, and special moments both on and off the pitch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sudarsan sand&#8217;s sculpture is the perfect birthday tribute to the cricketing maestro, ViratKohli, a third user said. Millions of people&#8217;s appreciation is reflected in the creativity in the sand, another fan of Virat Kohli said. Others also wished him happy birthday on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, earlier on another occasion, Sudarsan expressed his wishes to Kohli while showcasing his talents. He uploaded an artwork on Twitter that included the former Indian Captain. A semicircle border encloses a light green field (cricket ground, apparently) in the highly amazing art feature. A cricket pitch with miniature wickets and crease lines is located in the centre. The enclosure&#8217;s colours, orange and beige, represented the cricket stands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Captain Kohli&#8217;s face and bust are seen emerging from the pitch. He was dressed in the men&#8217;s blue uniform of Team India, which had a brilliant blue jersey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With over 119K views since it was released, the video\u00a0has become extremely popular.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":493282,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6,110599],"tags":[455,161186,161187,161188,2024,98224],"yst_prominent_words":[81917,3887,5605,88073,7508,7520],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2023\/11\/05133955\/sandart1699162381387-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493279"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=493279"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=493279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->