BCCI vice-president Rajeev Shukla Reveals? Why MS Dhoni Stays Away from Social Media and Talks Politics<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nHighlighting that the Men in Blue earned their rightful place in the final with their performances, Shukla also went on to dispute the argument that the particular Champions Trophy presentation of only one site gave the Indian team any unfair advantage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
India-centered games will be in Dubai and the rest of the games in Pakistan according to ICC level choice; therefore, he said, it is not a question of fair or unfair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Even there in Dubai, there are many sorts of pitches; the Indian team does not rely on pitches.” Shukla further noted, “The team relies on their performance; the players rely on their strengths and not rely on pitches.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nAsked if it would not have been better had the final taken place in Lahore, the quick-witted Shukla replied; “For that, Australia should have won yesterday (Tuesday).” But given their defeat, the last must be contested in Dubai.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rajeev Shukla, BCCI vice president, says that everything depends on the orders of the Indian Government. Can we see an India-Pakistan bilateral series soon? On an invitation from the Pakistan Cricket Board to attend the Champions Trophy semi-final between South Africa and South Africa, Shukla was present in Lahore. Asked whether a bilateral series between<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":35143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-35130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rajeev-Shukla.webp",1024,490,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rajeev-Shukla-150x150.webp",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rajeev-Shukla-300x144.webp",300,144,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rajeev-Shukla-768x368.webp",768,368,true],"large":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rajeev-Shukla.webp",788,377,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rajeev-Shukla.webp",1024,490,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rajeev-Shukla.webp",1024,490,false],"bunyad-small":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rajeev-Shukla-150x72.webp",150,72,true],"bunyad-medium":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rajeev-Shukla-450x215.webp",450,215,true],"bunyad-full":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rajeev-Shukla.webp",1024,490,false],"bunyad-viewport":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rajeev-Shukla.webp",1024,490,false],"bunyad-768":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rajeev-Shukla-768x368.webp",768,368,true],"web-stories-poster-portrait":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rajeev-Shukla-640x490.webp",640,490,true],"web-stories-publisher-logo":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rajeev-Shukla-96x96.webp",96,96,true],"web-stories-thumbnail":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rajeev-Shukla-150x72.webp",150,72,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Divyansh Mishra","author_link":"https:\/\/uccricket.live\/author\/divyansh-mishra\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Rajeev Shukla, BCCI vice president, says that everything depends on the orders of the Indian Government. Can we see an India-Pakistan bilateral series soon? On an invitation from the Pakistan Cricket Board to attend the Champions Trophy semi-final between South Africa and South Africa, Shukla was present in Lahore. Asked whether a bilateral series between","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}