{"id":67178,"date":"2017-06-22T15:34:28","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T22:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=67178"},"modified":"2017-06-22T15:34:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T22:34:28","slug":"lasith-malinga-says-sports-minister-is-a-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/06\/22\/lasith-malinga-says-sports-minister-is-a-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"Lasith Malinga says Sports Minister is a joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeyskera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><em>Fast bowler Lasith Malinga made a scathing attack on Sports Minister after the Minister had questioned the fitness of Sri Lankan cricketers. After Sri Lanka\u2019s disappointing Champions Trophy campaign last week, minister \u00a0addressing the media had said that Sri Lanka\u2019s players were the most unfit in the world.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0Yesterday Malinga responded making a scathing attack on the Minister in an interview with the Hiru website.When parrots are on cage, monkeys outside are making noises. Only the parrots know what\u2019s going on inside the cage. Parrots make cage and parrots need cage. When monkeys get in and try to answer (on behalf of the parrots) there could be issues,&#8221; Malinga said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Comment \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We have selected a cricket captain as an MP and he is now a minister .Same SPORTS minister abused fat players and Arjuna was spared because his belly was not a problem when he won the world cup .If Sri Lanka won the cup in UK Malinga would have been CALLED differently. They may call him and PEA COCK (Sometime his hair makes him\u00a0 a peak cock )<\/p>\n<p>My opinion is that Malinga should be selected by JO as an opposition national MP so that he get parliamentary privilege, so that almost all ministers are monkeys or donkeys !<\/p>\n<p>Why only Sports Minister ?<\/p>\n<p>Today we see many ministers who behave like monkeys ( once PM was commenting that JO MP\u2019s chatter like animals in the Zoo! }<\/p>\n<p>We have voted for the monkeys in place of humans ,and we also should called asses ?<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sarath Obeyskera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeyskera Fast bowler Lasith Malinga made a scathing attack on Sports Minister after the Minister had questioned the fitness of Sri Lankan cricketers. After Sri Lanka\u2019s disappointing Champions Trophy campaign last week, minister \u00a0addressing the media had said that Sri Lanka\u2019s players were the most unfit in the world. \u00a0Yesterday Malinga responded making [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67178","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=67178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}