{"id":110995,"date":"2021-01-25T18:07:59","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T01:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=110995"},"modified":"2021-01-25T18:07:59","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T01:07:59","slug":"umpires-call-ruined-england-series-for-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/01\/25\/umpires-call-ruined-england-series-for-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cUMPIRES CALL\u201d RUINED ENGLAND SERIES FOR SRI LANKA!"},"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\nseries against England was umpired by world renowned our own Kumar Dharmasena\nwith not to renowned Ruchira Palliyaguru.&nbsp; Throughout the series, the\nUMPIRES CALL\u201d haunted Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\ntwo umpires were far too strict for the Sri Lankans, perhaps unwilling to be\nseen and criticised bias against England.&nbsp; But the professionals need not\nbe act in that manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many\nof the deliveries of Lasith Embuldeniya were not properly read by both umpires,\nresulting stand in Skipper Chandimal to call for DRS.&nbsp; We now have clear\nevidence of at least on 6 occasions, Sri Lankan bowlers were denied the\nwickets, as the appeals were turned down prompting review, consequently judged\nUMPIRES CALL even though the ball clearly hitting the wicket.&nbsp; Had umpires\ncorrectly judged the deliveries and England appealing as a result, clearly\ndemonstrate the correct decision of the umpires.&nbsp; The number of incidents\nwere far too many to ignore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\nthe long list of missed opportunities ( or wrong decisions of the umpires), the\nlucky survivors continued to make strong innings.&nbsp; &nbsp;The list includes\nJoe Root, Dan Lawrence, Jos Butler,Jonny Bairstow&nbsp; in the two match\nseries.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; If situation of this nature takes place in\neither England or Australia, the public anger will be instant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under\ndifficult conditions in Galle pitch, Sri Lankans played well in both matches,\nbut invisible forces twisted our hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By M D P DISSANAYAKE The series against England was umpired by world renowned our own Kumar Dharmasena with not to renowned Ruchira Palliyaguru.&nbsp; Throughout the series, the UMPIRES CALL\u201d haunted Sri Lanka. The two umpires were far too strict for the Sri Lankans, perhaps unwilling to be seen and criticised bias against England.&nbsp; But [&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-110995","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\/110995","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=110995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}