{"id":66780,"date":"2017-06-09T16:26:29","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T23:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=66780"},"modified":"2017-06-09T16:26:29","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T23:26:29","slug":"indians-praying-god-muruga-god-ganesh-etc-for-sri-lanka-to-lose-against-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/06\/09\/indians-praying-god-muruga-god-ganesh-etc-for-sri-lanka-to-lose-against-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"INDIANS PRAYING GOD MURUGA, GOD GANESH ETC. FOR SRI LANKA TO LOSE AGAINST PAKISTAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Beating India is great, that is our ultimate opponent.\u00a0 They underestimated SL prior to \u00a0the match.<\/p>\n<p>The problem of fitness still persists. Angelow, Asela, Kusal must be back in action in the quarter final against Pakistan on Monday. SL has a remarkable record of coming from behind.\u00a0 India has a remarkable record of conducting Pooja for various Gods before matches and praying for their players, but Indians go to the extent of destroying the homes of their Cricketer if they lose.<\/p>\n<p>SL win against India is a great motivation and should go undeterred to get into the semis.<\/p>\n<p>Personally there is nothing better for me than winning against India.\u00a0 Indian\u2019s are conducting massive poojas in Kovils with the hope Sri Lanka lose to Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>In this scenario, it is pertinent to reproduce and enjoy an article published in Lankaweb\u00a0 in 2007 World Cup, to energise our players.\u00a0 This article has annoyed several Indians, so be it again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By M D P DISSANAYAKE Beating India is great, that is our ultimate opponent.\u00a0 They underestimated SL prior to \u00a0the match. The problem of fitness still persists. Angelow, Asela, Kusal must be back in action in the quarter final against Pakistan on Monday. SL has a remarkable record of coming from behind.\u00a0 India has a [&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-66780","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\/66780","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=66780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}