{"id":8613,"date":"2018-03-30T10:59:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T10:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=8613"},"modified":"2018-03-30T10:59:16","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T10:59:16","slug":"varun-dhawan-comes-out-in-support-of-steven-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=8613","title":{"rendered":"Varun Dhawan comes out in support of Steven Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Varun Dhawan has lent support to Australian skipper Steven Smith over the ball-tampering controversy and hopes that fans will &#8220;forgive&#8221; him for his actions.<\/p>\n<p>Smith, along with vice-captain David Warner, has been banned for a year for ball-tampering during the third Test against South Africa in Cape Town. Cameron Bancroft, who was caught on camera trying to tamper the ball with a sandpaper, has been banned for nine months.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, a teary-eyed Smith made an appearance in front of Australian media after he reached Sydney, and said he regretted his actions.<\/p>\n<p>Varun took to Twitter and wrote, &#8220;Watching Steven Smith apologise and look broken is very sad. I&#8217;m sure the fans will forgive him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He looks beyond remorseful I hope and pray he will come out of this ordeal a better cricketer. The mental, the emotional trauma, I&#8217;m sure is bigger then any ban,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>On the work front, the actor will be next seen in Shoojit Sircar&#8217;s &#8220;October&#8221;, which also stars debutante Banita Sandhu.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Varun Dhawan has lent support to Australian skipper Steven Smith over the ball-tampering controversy and hopes that fans will &#8220;forgive&#8221; him for his actions. Smith, along with vice-captain David Warner, has been banned for a year for ball-tampering during the third Test against South Africa in Cape Town. Cameron Bancroft, who was caught on camera trying to tamper the ball with a sandpaper, has been banned for nine months. Yesterday, a teary-eyed Smith made an appearance in front of Australian media after he reached Sydney, and said he regretted&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8615,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8613\/revisions\/8615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}