{"id":35225,"date":"2025-03-06T12:01:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T06:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uccricket.live\/?p=35225"},"modified":"2025-03-06T12:01:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T06:31:59","slug":"rachin-ravindra-on-the-honours-board-of-the-iconic-gaddafi-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uccricket.live\/news\/rachin-ravindra-on-the-honours-board-of-the-iconic-gaddafi-stadium-35225\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachin Ravindra on the \u201cHonour’s board\u201d of the iconic Gaddafi stadium."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As he scratched his name on the honours board at Gaddafi Stadium <\/a>on Wednesday, Rachin Ravindra <\/a>spent a good time glancing at the list of centurions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 25-year-old opening batter, who has been the centurion for the fifth time in an ODI and helped New Zealand reach the final round of the Champions Trophy<\/a>, said that traveling back and forth over a few days was challenging, but the team would handle it well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It can definitely be challenging, but I think that’s something we pride ourselves on as a group. You have got to deal with the conditions in front of you, and it’s what it is. That’s why we come here early,” Rachin stated.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New Zealand was back in Lahore shortly after finishing off India in the last group league fixture on Sunday. However, the team had already hit the ground running: “That’s why we train and practice what we do at home to try and replicate conditions and think outside the box a wee bit. That’s part of being an international cricketer. You play in so many countries around the world, and especially in a world tournament,” he remarked, adding that prior experiences of playing in Pakistan helped immensely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Luckily enough, we’ve played a bit of cricket in Pakistan before, we’ve played a bit of cricket in Dubai, too. So we are able to draw back on those experiences….”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rachin is yet to plan his final against India, scheduled for next Sunday in Dubai. Kane Williamson, however, wants to “carry the learnings” of the semifinal victory into the final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“For us, it was nice to have a game there [in Dubai],” Williamson said after scoring a hundred to help Rachin with a 164-run second-wicket partnership.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The conditions in Dubai are very different to those here. India is an outstanding team and plays very well. Our focus is on that game.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Williamson characterized the travel between Pakistan and Dubai for matches as “part and parcel of the game” and quipped when asked whether this final would be his last Champions Trophy <\/a>match: “Regardless of whether it’s my last [game] or not, we want to end it on a high.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As he scratched his name on the honours board at Gaddafi Stadium on Wednesday, Rachin Ravindra spent a good time glancing at the list of centurions. The 25-year-old opening batter, who has been the centurion for the fifth time in an ODI and helped New Zealand reach the final round of the Champions Trophy, said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":35228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[216],"class_list":{"0":"post-35225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-rachin-ravindra"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rachin-Ravindra.webp",1024,490,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rachin-Ravindra-150x150.webp",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rachin-Ravindra-300x144.webp",300,144,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rachin-Ravindra-768x368.webp",768,368,true],"large":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rachin-Ravindra.webp",788,377,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rachin-Ravindra.webp",1024,490,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rachin-Ravindra.webp",1024,490,false],"bunyad-small":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rachin-Ravindra-150x72.webp",150,72,true],"bunyad-medium":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rachin-Ravindra-450x215.webp",450,215,true],"bunyad-full":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rachin-Ravindra.webp",1024,490,false],"bunyad-viewport":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rachin-Ravindra.webp",1024,490,false],"bunyad-768":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rachin-Ravindra-768x368.webp",768,368,true],"web-stories-poster-portrait":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rachin-Ravindra-640x490.webp",640,490,true],"web-stories-publisher-logo":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rachin-Ravindra-96x96.webp",96,96,true],"web-stories-thumbnail":["https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rachin-Ravindra-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":"As he scratched his name on the honours board at Gaddafi Stadium on Wednesday, Rachin Ravindra spent a good time glancing at the list of centurions. The 25-year-old opening batter, who has been the centurion for the fifth time in an ODI and helped New Zealand reach the final round of the Champions Trophy, said","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35225","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=35225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35229,"href":"https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35225\/revisions\/35229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uccricket.live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}