{"id":50777,"date":"2016-01-05T16:34:10","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T23:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=50777"},"modified":"2016-01-05T16:34:10","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T23:34:10","slug":"mahela-jayawardene-illuminates-adelaide-cricket-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/01\/05\/mahela-jayawardene-illuminates-adelaide-cricket-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"MAHELA JAYAWARDENE ILLUMINATES\u00a0 ADELAIDE CRICKET GROUND"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>South Australian capital of Adelaide has no Opera House.\u00a0 Adelaide has no Harbour Bridge of Sydney.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Adelaide has no skyscrapers like in Melbourne.\u00a0 Adelaide has no Gold Coast.\u00a0 And finally Adelaide City is not overlooking sea and Freemantle Doctor is not present unlike in Perth.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, Adelaide is Australia&#8217;s\u00a0 best kept secret.\u00a0 Anyone who may have lived in other cities of Australia will testify the people of Adelaide\u00a0 or South Australia are different to most Australians in other States.\u00a0 They are very kind and understand compassion, even though they are not Buddhists.\u00a0 The city&#8217;s main attractions apart from the University of Adelaide and University of South Australia, includes the world&#8217;s most picturesque\u00a0 cricket ground, The Oval.<\/p>\n<p>The Sri Lankan Legend Mahela Jayawardene, representing the Adelaide Team, known as Adelaide Strikers, illuminated the Adelaide Cricket Ground today in a sparkling manner.\u00a0 Usually come into bat at the first drop, today he was promoted to open.\u00a0 With 37 balls faced, Mahela scored 57 runs, including 2 towering sixes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>On the Big Bash Ladder, Mahela has put his team Adelaide Strikers to the top. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We hope the cricketing legends\u00a0 like Mahela, Kumar etc will continue to\u00a0 bring positive image for Sri Lanka and the game of cricket.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By M D P DISSANAYAKE South Australian capital of Adelaide has no Opera House.\u00a0 Adelaide has no Harbour Bridge of Sydney.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Adelaide has no skyscrapers like in Melbourne.\u00a0 Adelaide has no Gold Coast.\u00a0 And finally Adelaide City is not overlooking sea and Freemantle Doctor is not present unlike in Perth. Yet, Adelaide is Australia&#8217;s\u00a0 best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50777","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\/50777","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=50777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}