{"id":66562,"date":"2017-06-01T16:43:02","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T23:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=66562"},"modified":"2017-06-01T16:43:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T23:43:02","slug":"angelow-mathews-sick-again-cricket-fans-are-sick-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/06\/01\/angelow-mathews-sick-again-cricket-fans-are-sick-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"ANGELOW MATHEWS SICK AGAIN-CRICKET FANS ARE SICK OF IT!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>It is being reported that Sri Lankan Skipper Angelow Mathews is suffering from a calf injury.\u00a0 Sports injuries are a common phenomenon, in international arena the players who are not 100 per cent fit had been sidelined for extended periods of time.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lankan cricket rankings are currently rated poor, in ODI rankings, the Champion Trophy is a golden opportunity to lift our standings.\u00a0 With a Leader who is constantly on sick \u00a0\u00a0list, it does not provide motivation for the rest of the team members.<\/p>\n<p>Views had been expressed in the past to allow sufficient time for Angelow to be fully fit, but the selectors have ignored the calls for unknown reasons.\u00a0 The management of players is an essential requirement and even the use of rotational systems have been used in other countries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time left for the stand in Skipper Upul Tharanga is limited.\u00a0\u00a0 We wish him courage and enhanced leadership skills to take Sri Lanka to the next level.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By M D P DISSANAYAKE It is being reported that Sri Lankan Skipper Angelow Mathews is suffering from a calf injury.\u00a0 Sports injuries are a common phenomenon, in international arena the players who are not 100 per cent fit had been sidelined for extended periods of time. Sri Lankan cricket rankings are currently rated poor, [&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-66562","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\/66562","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=66562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}