{"id":494340,"date":"2023-11-19T13:55:26","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T08:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=494340"},"modified":"2023-11-19T13:55:26","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T08:25:26","slug":"india-vs-australia-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/sports-news\/india-vs-australia-final\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup final: Ahead of India vs Australia match, political leaders convey best wishes to Team India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ahead of the much-awaited World Cup finals between India and Australia, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday extended his best wishes to the Indian Men&#8217;s Cricket team. The Prime Minister said that 140 crore Indians are cheering for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taking to social media platform X, formerly Twitter, Prime Minister Narendra Modi wrote that 140 crore Indians are cheering for the team. He wished that the team would shine bright, play well and uphold the spirit of sportsmanship.<\/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\">All the best Team India! <br><br>140 crore Indians are cheering for you. <br><br>May you shine bright, play well and uphold the spirit of sportsmanship. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NfQDT5ygxk\">https:\/\/t.co\/NfQDT5ygxk<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/narendramodi\/status\/1726131218570186816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 19, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi also took to X and conveyed best wishes to the boys in blue for the Cricket World Cup Final. He added that more than a billion hearts beat for the cricketers. He concluded the social media post stating, let\u2019s bring it home adding a trophy emoji.&nbsp;<\/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\">Best wishes to the boys in blue for the Cricket World Cup Final. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/INDvAUS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#INDvAUS<\/a><br><br>Play fearlessly &#8211; more than a billion hearts beat for you \u2764\ufe0f<br><br>Let&#39;s bring it home \ud83c\udfc6<br><br>Jeetega INDIA! \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9NW5ETnDnh\">pic.twitter.com\/9NW5ETnDnh<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RahulGandhi\/status\/1726134859486085285?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 19, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier on Saturday, Congress leader Sonia Gandhi also extended her best wishes to the Indian team and said the sport has always united the country beyond gender, region, language, religion and class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a video message to Team India, she said that she would like to first begin by congratulating the team for their incredible performance and excellent teamwork during this World Cup. She added that the team has consistently brought glory to the country and given it all reasons to be collectively joyous and proud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Congress parliamentary party chairperson, Sonia Gandhi continued that now as they get ready for the finals this year, the entire country is rooting for them. She sent them her best wishes and mentioned that they have what it takes to be world champions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, wishes have been pouring in for Team India from political leaders, celebrities and citizens from all over the country for the highly-anticipated World Cup final match to be played at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. Cricket fans have started flocking to temples to pray for Team India&#8217;s victory against the Aussies in the ultimate title clash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wishes have been pouring in for Team India from political leaders, celebrities and citizens from all over the country for the highly-anticipated World Cup final match to be played at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":494342,"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":[6,125714],"tags":[86729,10608,161267],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2023\/11\/19135408\/download-2023-11-19T135048.510-1.webp","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\/494340"}],"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=494340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494340"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=494340"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=494340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->