{"id":3967,"date":"2018-01-04T17:05:27","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T11:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.smartworld.asia\/?p=3967"},"modified":"2018-01-04T17:07:36","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T11:37:36","slug":"shah-rukh-khan-wants-mithali-raj-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/shah-rukh-khan-wants-mithali-raj-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Shah Rukh Khan wants Mithali Raj to coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan had backed India women\u2019s team captain Mithali Raj to coach Indian men\u2019s team in near future.<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3971\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.smartworld.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/shahrukh-Mithali-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"shahrukh-Mithali | TED Talk\" width=\"765\" height=\"426\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/shahrukh-Mithali-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/shahrukh-Mithali-768x428.jpg 768w, https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/shahrukh-Mithali-696x387.jpg 696w, https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/shahrukh-Mithali-754x420.jpg 754w, https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/shahrukh-Mithali.jpg 794w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 765px) 100vw, 765px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mithali, who led India to a historic ICC World Cup final last year, appeared on \u201cTED Talks India Nayi Soch\u201d \u2013 a TV show hosted by the actor. During the interaction, Shah Rukh said, \u201cI want to see you (Mithali Raj) as the coach of the men\u2019s cricket team one day.\u201d Raj responded with a smile and said, \u201cI always want to give my best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SRK, who is an avid reader himself, also queried Raj about her books preferences.&#8221;I read books to get rid of pressure during a match. It does help me to keep calm and encourage a good performance,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>TED is an internationally acclaimed TV show where a lot of Indian speakers have been present, but now the show is available in Hindi in India itself. In fact, as per BARC report, the first episode of had got a brilliant aggregate reach of 42.4 million.<\/p>\n<p>Mithali during the ICC Women\u2019s World Cup last year became the only batter to cross the 1,000-run mark in tournament\u2019s history. She is also the first and only Indian captain (both men and women) to lead her side to two World Cup finals (2005 and 2017). She is also the highest ODI run-getter of all time in women\u2019s cricket.<\/p>\n<p>The women&#8217;s team captain also graced the cover of international style magazine Vogue last year, along with superstar Shah Rukh Khan and Nita Ambani.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan had backed India women\u2019s team captain Mithali Raj to coach Indian men\u2019s team in near future. Mithali, who led India to a historic ICC World Cup final last year, appeared on \u201cTED Talks India Nayi Soch\u201d \u2013 a TV show hosted by the actor. During the interaction, Shah Rukh said, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3464,5733,5734],"class_list":["post-3967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","tag-mithali-raj","tag-shah-rukh-khan","tag-ted-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}