{"id":39677,"date":"2022-11-12T15:26:26","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T09:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/?p=39677"},"modified":"2022-11-12T15:27:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T09:57:53","slug":"agarkars-ton-at-lords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/?p=39677","title":{"rendered":"Agarkar&#8217;s Ton At Lord&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/citybell.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/images-12-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39676\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citybell.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/images-12-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/citybell.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/images-12.jpeg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ajit Agarkar Test 100* @Lords | India Tour England 2002\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D-T0iH9w690?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Often labelled as the Mecca of cricket, Lord&#8217;s remains the hallowed ground where almost every cricketer hopes of doing well but only a few have ever managed to do so. Batting great Sachin Tendulkar, who has almost every cricket record under his belt, couldn&#8217;t score a Test hundred at the home of cricket. But, believe it or not, Ajit Agarkar did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For someone who was once tipped as the next big thing in Indian cricket for being fastest to 50 ODI wickets, Agarkar ruled the charts during the 2005-06 season. While his bowling aided India in multiple occasions, Agarkar&#8217;s batting, despite visible talent, never got its due. That&#8217;s probably why no one would believe he scored a hundred at Lord&#8217;s.<br \/>July 2002, England set a target of 568 runs for India during the Lord&#8217;s Test. Reeling at 170\/6, India found an unlikely saviour in Agarkar who stitched a 126-run partnership with VVS Laxman (74) before the latter departed at the score of 296\/7. But, Agarkar didn&#8217;t stop. He added another 101 runs to India&#8217;s total before running out of batting partners at the other end. While India lost the Test by 170 runs, Agarkar remained unbeaten at 109 runs off 190 balls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Often labelled as the Mecca of cricket, Lord&#8217;s remains the hallowed ground where almost every cricketer hopes of doing well but only a few have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39678,"href":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39677\/revisions\/39678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}