{"id":498933,"date":"2024-01-16T19:23:36","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T13:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=498933"},"modified":"2024-01-16T19:23:36","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T13:53:36","slug":"virat-anushka-pran-pratishtha-invite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/sports-news\/virat-anushka-pran-pratishtha-invite\/","title":{"rendered":"Ram Temple: MS Dhoni, Virat Kohli, Anushka Sharma get invitation for Pran Pratishtha ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The recent member of the Indian cricket team to receive an invitation to the January 22 consecration ceremony of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya is Virat Kohli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, invitations to the important occasion were given to players like MS Dhoni, Venkatesh Prasad, and Sachin Tendulkar. An invitation to the grand opening of the temple in Uttar Pradesh was sent to Kohli and his spouse, the renowned Bollywood actor&nbsp;Anuskha Sharma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per sources, Kohli was travelling with the Indian cricket team for the ongoing\u00a0T20 International series against Afghanistan, the star batsman returned to his Mumbai house to personally accept the invitation prior to flying to Bengaluru for the third match.<\/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\">Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma receives the invitation letter for the Ram Mandir Pran Pratistha.<br><br>Jai Shree Ram \ud83d\ude4f\u2764\ufe0f. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ek4e3HpGyi\">pic.twitter.com\/ek4e3HpGyi<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Kevin (@imkevin149) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/imkevin149\/status\/1747218282594418804?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 16, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, with the series already won, India will be keen to improve as a unit and hope that captain Rohit Sharma&#8217;s bat finally clicks when they play Afghanistan in the third and final rubber on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The management of the squad would like that there be no let-up in the energy shown during the triumphs in Mohali and Indore considering this is India&#8217;s last Twenty20 match before the World Cup in June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India&#8217;s relentless approach from ball one, which saw them chase down 159 in 17.3 overs and 173 in 15.4 overs, respectively, was the hallmark of their identical six-wicket victories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was obviously different from their previous strategy of gathering steam for a thrilling finish in the T20s. Nobody demonstrated this intention more clearly than Virat Kohli and Shivam Dube.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The letter inviting Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma to the Ram Mandir Pran Pratistha is received.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his first T20I match for India in 14 months at Indore, Kohli hammered a strike rate of 181 off of 16 balls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His small but meaningful innings was most notable for the way he handled Afghan spinner Mujeeb-ur-Rahman, hitting him for 18 runs off seven balls at a strike rate of 257.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anushka Sharma and Virat Kohli are invited to see Lord Ram&#8217;s Pran Pratishtha at Ayodhya, their picture is going viral on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":498936,"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":[111252,6,110599],"tags":[58789,161636,161663,58486,2024],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2024\/01\/16192024\/2033845594_virat-anushka-invitation-1-1.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\/498933"}],"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=498933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498933"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=498933"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=498933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->