{"id":116288,"date":"2021-07-19T14:54:11","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T21:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=116288"},"modified":"2021-07-19T14:54:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T21:54:11","slug":"seemed-like-a-university-team-vs-school-team-match-fmr-pakistan-cricketer-slams-sl-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/07\/19\/seemed-like-a-university-team-vs-school-team-match-fmr-pakistan-cricketer-slams-sl-team\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Seemed like a university team vs school team match\u2019: Fmr Pakistan cricketer slams SL team"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Former Pakistan cricketer and commentator Ramiz Raja analysed the first ODI between Sri Lanka and India, calling it a game between a university and a school team \u2013 where the Indians looked strong like university players who made the hosts struggle like school team cricketers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Outstanding Bowling Performance By India | IND vs SL 1st ODI | Ramiz Speaks\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zbt5J99Qn4c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>India vs Sri Lanka seemed like a University team vs School team match. Such was the difference between the skills, execution, talent and the ability to understand the game. This is a very challenging situation for Sri Lankan cricket because they were playing at home. They prepared a flat pitch for the series opener against India and still ended with an average score,\u201d Ramiz Raja said in his latest YouTube video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cricketer-turned-commentator highlighted Sri Lanka\u2019s misery with the bat. Raja was highly disappointed to see the host batsmen struggling with India\u2019s spin attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The way Sri Lanka played against spin, it looked like they had no idea how to tackle spin. Historically, Sri Lankan batsmen have dominated the spinners. However, the current lot just does not seem to be on that level yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sri Lanka batters looked confused after getting a start. They couldn\u2019t understand how to change the gear. And this confusion was created by India\u2019s outstanding bowling performance. India didn\u2019t have to push much as the challenge wasn\u2019t tough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The game was one-sided. Sri Lanka produced a flop show. I don\u2019t know whether watching them in future would be interesting. Everything about them seemed in slow motion \u2013 a team is playing against a side that felt like no challenge was being thrown at them,\u201d Raja concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former Pakistan cricketer and commentator Ramiz Raja analysed the first ODI between Sri Lanka and India, calling it a game between a university and a school team \u2013 where the Indians looked strong like university players who made the hosts struggle like school team cricketers. India vs Sri Lanka seemed like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116288","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=116288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}