{"id":110208,"date":"2020-12-29T18:36:16","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T01:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=110208"},"modified":"2020-12-29T18:36:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T01:36:16","slug":"why-suranga-lakmal-sent-to-south-africa-asantha-de-mel-must-be-replaced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/12\/29\/why-suranga-lakmal-sent-to-south-africa-asantha-de-mel-must-be-replaced\/","title":{"rendered":"WHY SURANGA LAKMAL  SENT TO SOUTH AFRICA? ASANTHA DE MEL MUST  BE REPLACED"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Surangal\nLakmal by far the best fast bowler Sri Lanka \u2018s squad.&nbsp; We &nbsp;did not\nplay the practise match before the first test. According to our Head Coach,\nLakmal will play the second test, if he &nbsp;pass the fitness test.&nbsp; Sri\nLankan Cricket says Lakmal sustained an injury during regular training in SA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If\nan international player sent abroad to play test matches sustain an injury\nduring regular training sessions, then there are several questions ought to be\nanswered.&nbsp;&nbsp; Did he attend the training sessions in Sri Lanka\nsuccessfully? Was there any motive to send a half-baked player&nbsp; so that\neven if he does not play, the costs will be reimbursed by the Insurance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kusal\nMendis should not have been sent to SA at all. Compared with the number of\ninnings he has played, his performances are below test standards.&nbsp; Kasun\nRajitha, Dinesh Chandimal, Dhananjaya de Silva are all on the casualties list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asantha\nde Mel has been on the job in the selection committee far too long.&nbsp; He\nwas not even a front line leading fast bowler for Sri Lanka. Before the test\nseries with England&nbsp; the Chairman of the Selection Committee should be\nsent packing for sending a team of wounded lions to South Africa.&nbsp; Our new\nMinister of Sports has an overall responsibility and the results shows of his\ndecision making skills&nbsp; need to be reviewed immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By M D P DISSANAYAKE Surangal Lakmal by far the best fast bowler Sri Lanka \u2018s squad.&nbsp; We &nbsp;did not play the practise match before the first test. According to our Head Coach, Lakmal will play the second test, if he &nbsp;pass the fitness test.&nbsp; Sri Lankan Cricket says Lakmal sustained an injury during regular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-m-d-p-dissanayake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}