{"id":116250,"date":"2021-07-18T15:08:21","date_gmt":"2021-07-18T22:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=116250"},"modified":"2021-07-18T15:08:21","modified_gmt":"2021-07-18T22:08:21","slug":"sri-lanka-cricket-fighting-for-survival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/07\/18\/sri-lanka-cricket-fighting-for-survival\/","title":{"rendered":"SRI LANKA CRICKET \u2013 FIGHTING FOR SURVIVAL"},"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 image of Sri Lanka\nas a leading cricket playing nation is now heavily bruised.&nbsp; The team\ncannot go down any further &nbsp;&nbsp;the cricket lovers no longer consider\nSri Lankan team as competitive.&nbsp; The team in the past was not\nbalanced.&nbsp; If the batters deliver goods, then bowlers fail and vice versa.\nThe lack of batting partnership could be&nbsp; identified as the main cause for\nbatting failure.&nbsp; It is unfortunate to notice that in rare instances where\nsome partnership develops, then our batters find another way of getting out,\nfamous RUN OUT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SLC&nbsp; board is\nfacing severe financial crisis.&nbsp; The ODIs between Sri Lanka and India has\nbeen scheduled as day night matches.&nbsp; We cannot understand the logic,\nplaying matches under Covid Bubble, why not play it as a day match and save\nmillions of dollars of power costs!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We hope Dasun Shanaka\nwill lead the team forward, it is important to retain him, barring any\nunavoidable circumstances, until the next world cup.&nbsp; My team for today\u2019s\nmatch picked as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ALL ROUNDERS:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Isuru Udana<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dasun Shanakha<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dananjaya de Silva<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wanindu Hasaranga<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BOWLERS:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chameera or Rajitha<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Praveen Jayawickrema<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BATTERS:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Avishkha Fernando<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pathum Nissanka<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ramesh Mendis<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bhanukha Rajapakse<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minod Bhanuka<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Identify your weaknesses\nand build on your strengths.&nbsp; Jayawewa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By M D P DISSANAYAKE The image of Sri Lanka as a leading cricket playing nation is now heavily bruised.&nbsp; The team cannot go down any further &nbsp;&nbsp;the cricket lovers no longer consider Sri Lankan team as competitive.&nbsp; The team in the past was not balanced.&nbsp; If the batters deliver goods, then bowlers fail and [&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-116250","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\/116250","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=116250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}