{"id":2620,"date":"2002-11-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-11-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/11\/25\/2002-11-25-ganesha-devotee-builds-temple-dedicated-to-cricket-ganesha\/"},"modified":"2002-11-25T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-11-25T12:00:00","slug":"2002-11-25-ganesha-devotee-builds-temple-dedicated-to-cricket-ganesha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/11\/25\/2002-11-25-ganesha-devotee-builds-temple-dedicated-to-cricket-ganesha\/","title":{"rendered":"Ganesha Devotee Builds Temple Dedicated to &#8220;Cricket Ganesha&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/stories\/southasia\/view\/25281\/1\/.html\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>CHENNAI, INDIA, November 22, 2002: Field hockey may be India&#8217;s national game but ask any Indian which sport is the national obsession, and he would say cricket. Everything comes to a standstill when the Indian team is playing. And if India wins, which of late has not been often, it becomes a cause for national celebration. In the latest indication of how Indian fans&#8217; love for cricket borders on obsession, a devotee of Lord Ganesha has installed a &#8220;cricket icon&#8221; for all Hindus to worship. The temple in Chennai, which is dedicated to cricket Lord Ganesha, was consecrated by Ramakrishnan, a Hindu devotee of Lord Ganesha. Ramakrishnan claims that the temple came up as a result of a vow he had taken during a match. There is one Ganesha icon with a trunk pointing to the right for good luck to right-handed batsmen and another with its trunk pointed to the left for good luck to left-handed batsmen. And such is the faith of cricket enthusiasts that many come to the temple before an Indian match to pray for the team&#8217;s success.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE CHENNAI, INDIA, November 22, 2002: Field hockey may be India&#8217;s national game but ask any Indian which,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}