{"id":128676,"date":"2022-09-21T16:09:34","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T23:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=128676"},"modified":"2022-09-21T16:09:34","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T23:09:34","slug":"do-not-let-born-again-mafia-creeps-into-sri-lanka-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/09\/21\/do-not-let-born-again-mafia-creeps-into-sri-lanka-cricket\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Not Let Born Again Mafia Creeps into Sri Lanka Cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Sasanka De Silva Pannipitiya.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Politics should not be used to advance religions and vice versa.<br>Similarly, avoid using sports to advance religions.<br>It will lead to both the nation&#8217;s and sport&#8217;s demise.<br>In fact, it should&nbsp;make&nbsp;illegal to make&nbsp;any religious gestures on a playing field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka Cricket should take a very serious look at the incident involving one of their current players and take prompt action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If any code of conduct is involved, then deal with it to bring him back to his senses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not that you shouldn&#8217;t have faith in paranormal forces!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t market it to everyone!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Giving such accolades will undermine the performances of the others who were in the team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And eventually, it will affect their level of contribution in future endeavours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It holds true for all faiths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sasanka De Silva<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pannipitiya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sasanka De Silva Pannipitiya. Politics should not be used to advance religions and vice versa.Similarly, avoid using sports to advance religions.It will lead to both the nation&#8217;s and sport&#8217;s demise.In fact, it should&nbsp;make&nbsp;illegal to make&nbsp;any religious gestures on a playing field. Sri Lanka Cricket should take a very serious look at the incident involving one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128676","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=128676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}