{"id":110313,"date":"2021-01-02T14:23:23","date_gmt":"2021-01-02T21:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=110313"},"modified":"2021-01-02T14:23:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T21:23:23","slug":"lets-spin-proteas-in-the-2nd-test-on-3-1-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/01\/02\/lets-spin-proteas-in-the-2nd-test-on-3-1-21\/","title":{"rendered":"LETS SPIN PROTEAS IN THE 2ND TEST ON 3.1.21."},"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>The\nCenturian Park was famous for fast bowling attack. Yet Wanindu Hasaranga of Sri\nLanka grabbed 4 wickets at 3.80 economy rate.&nbsp;&nbsp; The absence of a\nsecond front line spinner was clearly the weakness of Sri Lankan cricket\nteam.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The South Africans are more acclimatized\n&nbsp;for&nbsp; fast bowling, their key spinner Maharaj is yet to make a\nmark.&nbsp; The Wanderers was famous for fast bowling. But in order to exploit\nthe weaknesses of SA batsman, Sri Lanka need to field a strong spin\nattack.&nbsp; Hence my choice:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Batters:<br>DIMUTH KARUNARATNE (c)<br>BINOE BHANUKA<br>DINESH CHANDIMAL OR ASITHA FERNANDO<br>OSHADA FERNANDO (part time leg break)<br>KUSAL JANITH PERERA (Bat and Wk)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All rounders:<br>SANTHUSH GUNATILLEKE (all rounder)<br>DILRUWAN PERERA (all rounder-OB)<br>DASUN SHANAKA (all rounder-mf))<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bowlers:<br>DUSMANTHA CHAMEERA (mf)OR DILSHAN MADUSHANKA<br>WANINDU HASARANGA <br>LASITH EMBULDENIYA <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\nwish Sri Lankan team to give a great start for the new decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By M D P DISSANAYAKE The Centurian Park was famous for fast bowling attack. Yet Wanindu Hasaranga of Sri Lanka grabbed 4 wickets at 3.80 economy rate.&nbsp;&nbsp; The absence of a second front line spinner was clearly the weakness of Sri Lankan cricket team.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The South Africans are more acclimatized &nbsp;for&nbsp; fast bowling, their key [&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-110313","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\/110313","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=110313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}