{"id":97039,"date":"2025-05-13T03:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T03:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/97039\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T03:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T03:43:10","slug":"ashes-to-ashes-dust-to-dust-dgmo-rajiv-ghai-cites-virat-kohli-iconic-aussie-pace-duo-to-describe-indias-defence-layers-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/97039\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust’: DGMO Rajiv Ghai cites Virat Kohli, iconic Aussie pace duo to describe India’s defence layers | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"'AshesVirat Kohli, Jeff Thomson and Dennis Lillee Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) Lt. General Rajiv Ghai, during a press briefing on Monday, named Virat Kohli<\/a> as his favourite cricketer, following the star batter\u2019s retirement from Test cricket. Ghai also drew a fascinating parallel between cricket and national defence while explaining India\u2019s multi-layered air-defence system.Kohli, who ended a glittering 14-year Test career, amassed 9,230 runs in 123 matches at an average of 46.85.Addressing the current situation along the India-Pakistan border, Lt. General Ghai\u2014joined by Director General Air Operations Air Marshal AK Bharti and Director General of Naval Operations Vice Admiral AN Pramod\u2014highlighted the robustness of India\u2019s air-defence system using a cricket analogy from the legendary 1974-75 Ashes series.Drawing from the fierce rivalry between England and Australia, he recalled how the Australian pace duo of Jeff Thomson<\/a> and Dennis Lillee<\/a> wreaked havoc on England\u2019s batting line-up, taking a combined 58 wickets to help Australia win the series 4-1.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAaj shayad cricket ki baat bhi karni chahiye, kyuki mai dekh raha tha Virat Kohli ne Test cricket se retirement leli. Kayi bharatiyo ki tarah mere bhi favourite cricketer hain (Maybe today I should talk about cricket too, because I saw that Virat Kohli has retired from Test cricket. Like many Indians, he is my favourite cricketer as well.),\u201d said Lt. General Ghai.He continued, \u201cIn 1970’s Australia and England were squaring off in the Ashes series. The Aussies had two fast bowlers Jeff Thomson and Dennis Lillee who completely destroyed the English batting line up. At that time, Australia coined a phrase \u2014 ‘ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if Thommo don’t get ya, Lillee surely must.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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Using this analogy to underline the effectiveness of India\u2019s defence strategy, Ghai explained how multiple layers of the country\u2019s air-defence grid work in tandem to neutralize aerial threats. \u201cIf you see the layers, you’ll understand what I am trying to say. Even if you crossed all the layers, one of the layers of this grid system will hit you,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Virat Kohli, Jeff Thomson and Dennis Lillee Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) Lt. General Rajiv Ghai, during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,45322,45321,45320,43646,45319,79,16,15,4221,42878],"class_list":{"0":"post-97039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-dennis-lillee","10":"tag-dgmo-rajiv-ghai","11":"tag-india-air-defence-system","12":"tag-india-pakistan-border-security","13":"tag-jeff-thomson","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-virat-kohli","18":"tag-virat-kohli-retirement"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114498464176595822","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}