{"id":52987,"date":"2016-03-15T15:35:17","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T22:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=52987"},"modified":"2016-03-15T15:35:17","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T22:35:17","slug":"ranil-maithree-chandrika-running-and-ruining-sri-lankan-cricket-sri-lankan-team-spirit-is-same-as-sri-lankan-national-electricity-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/03\/15\/ranil-maithree-chandrika-running-and-ruining-sri-lankan-cricket-sri-lankan-team-spirit-is-same-as-sri-lankan-national-electricity-supply\/","title":{"rendered":"RANIL, MAITHREE, CHANDRIKA RUNNING AND RUINING SRI LANKAN CRICKET-\u00a0 SRI LANKAN TEAM SPIRIT IS SAME AS SRI LANKAN NATIONAL ELECTRICITY SUPPLY!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Afghanistan has\u00a0 won all three matches in the qualifying round, beating Scotland, Hongkong and Zimbabwe.\u00a0 The wicket keeper and opener\u00a0 Mohammad Shahzad scored\u00a0 142 runs in 99 balls in the\u00a0 three matches.\u00a0 Mohammad Nabi, the\u00a0 low order batsman and bower scored 59 runs and taken 6 wickets.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast Sri Lanka lost both warm up matches against\u00a0 New Zealand and Pakistan.\u00a0 The New Zealand gave a drubbing to the reigning World Champions\u00a0 Sri Lanka.\u00a0 In these two innings, Dilshan\u00a0 faced 5 deliveries and failed a score a single run.\u00a0 Our all rounder Tissara Perera had taken 2 wickets and given away 69 runs, whilst\u00a0 batting had scored 11 runs in 11 balls faced, in the two matches.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Beating Afghanistan today is an uphill task for Sri Lanka.\u00a0 No one should be surprised if Afghans\u00a0 annihilate the current World Champions. \u00a0The morale of Sri Lankan team is extremely low.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During the Asia Cup, Sri Lanka played and lost\u00a0 a losing battle with Pakistan, as both teams failed to reach the finals.\u00a0 <strong>Even though this was not\u00a0 a Final, the VVIP stand was full of Sri Lankan\u00a0 disgusting dignitaries, such as Thilanga Sumathipala, Dayasiri Jayasekera and illustrious but dubious Wijitha Muni Soysa dressed in full European suit.\u00a0\u00a0 After all Sri Lanka is now a very rich country, even these pedestrian VVIPs could enjoy perks wily nilly,\u00a0 even though shamefully the Government is failing to provide power supply to the country.\u00a0\u00a0 Any hopes of watching the match between Sri Lanka and Afghanistan and the entire tournament\u00a0 live will be at the mercy of\u00a0 &#8220;Most inefficient Post Independent\u00a0 Government of Sri Lanka&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The hardworking players comforts and their basic grievances are not being addressed. <strong>\u00a0They are being given Lectures on Leadership by convicted criminals like Sarath Fonseka<\/strong>. Do you listen to convicted criminals to enhance your morale?\u00a0 The entire Sri Lankan Cricket is run by lethargic\u00a0 corruptors.<\/p>\n<p>It is very hard for me to mention the name of a single team in the 2016\u00a0 World Cup fixtures, that Sri Lanka is capable of beating.\u00a0 <strong>Beating Afghanistan\u00a0 will be a miracle.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If Sri Lanka can produce a miracle today,\u00a0 full credit must be given to the Team.\u00a0\u00a0 We wish them very best.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By M D P DISSANAYAKE Afghanistan has\u00a0 won all three matches in the qualifying round, beating Scotland, Hongkong and Zimbabwe.\u00a0 The wicket keeper and opener\u00a0 Mohammad Shahzad scored\u00a0 142 runs in 99 balls in the\u00a0 three matches.\u00a0 Mohammad Nabi, the\u00a0 low order batsman and bower scored 59 runs and taken 6 wickets. In contrast Sri [&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-52987","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\/52987","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=52987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}