{"id":161811,"date":"2024-12-25T05:54:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T05:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=161811"},"modified":"2024-12-25T05:54:02","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T05:54:02","slug":"big-money-as-saudi-makes-foray-into-cricket-with-ipl-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=161811","title":{"rendered":"Big money as Saudi makes foray into cricket with IPL auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia hosts this year&#8217;s Indian Premier League player auction in a partnership between a money-spinning cricket tournament expanding its global reach and a kingdom using sports to improve its image.De facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has backed extravagant sports investments &#8212; set to culminate in Saudi Arabia hosting the football World Cup in 2034 &#8212; to diversify its oil-rich economy&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/originals\/2024\/11\/big-money-saudi-makes-foray-cricket-ipl-auction\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia hosts this year&#8217;s Indian Premier League player auction in a partnership between a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":161812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ksa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/161811-big-money-as-saudi-makes-foray-into-cricket-with-ipl-auction.jpg",1200,628,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/161811-big-money-as-saudi-makes-foray-into-cricket-with-ipl-auction.jpg",150,79,false],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/161811-big-money-as-saudi-makes-foray-into-cricket-with-ipl-auction.jpg",300,157,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/161811-big-money-as-saudi-makes-foray-into-cricket-with-ipl-auction.jpg",640,335,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/161811-big-money-as-saudi-makes-foray-into-cricket-with-ipl-auction.jpg",640,335,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/161811-big-money-as-saudi-makes-foray-into-cricket-with-ipl-auction.jpg",1200,628,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/161811-big-money-as-saudi-makes-foray-into-cricket-with-ipl-auction.jpg",1200,628,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/161811-big-money-as-saudi-makes-foray-into-cricket-with-ipl-auction.jpg",1024,536,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/161811-big-money-as-saudi-makes-foray-into-cricket-with-ipl-auction.jpg",825,432,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/161811-big-money-as-saudi-makes-foray-into-cricket-with-ipl-auction.jpg",590,309,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=27\" rel=\"category\">Saudi Arabia<\/a>","tag_info":"Saudi Arabia","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/161812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}