{"id":74238,"date":"2018-02-01T13:38:39","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T19:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=74238"},"modified":"2018-01-31T22:16:26","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T05:16:26","slug":"national-athletes-embarrassed-at-the-air-port-sl-team-for-asian-championship-had-to-return-from-airport-since-travel-agency-messed-up-reservations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/02\/01\/national-athletes-embarrassed-at-the-air-port-sl-team-for-asian-championship-had-to-return-from-airport-since-travel-agency-messed-up-reservations\/","title":{"rendered":"National Athletes Embarrassed at the air port . SL team for Asian Championship had to return from Airport since Travel Agency messed up reservations !"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em>\u00a0Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>This is second time Ministry of Sports has bungles up !<strong>Sri Lanka Cricket bungling \u2013 the reason for recalling Sri Lanka ODI team frairport?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I wonder whether the Prime Minister who heads ministers of the Cabinet and the President who heads the whole cabinet carries out any Performance Evaluation of their Ministers<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-74239\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/sarath1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/sarath1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/sarath1-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka sports minister Dayasiri Jayasekara denies hiring local sorcerer to cast spell on Pakistan team<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-74240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/sarath2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/sarath2.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/sarath2-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another News Item !<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sri Lanka&#8217;s sports minister on Wednesday denied ordering the lowly-ranked national team to use witchcraft to score a surprising two-match Test series win against Pakistan earlier this month.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Handsome Sports Minster wearing a Saville Raw suits \u00a0( probably) running around and playing role of judges in reality shows ,criticising all other colleagues including ex cricket captain-minister take any action against the officers responsible for this failures?<\/p>\n<p>These young athletes from villages hoping to bring some honour to Sri Lanka are harassed like that before even game started .<\/p>\n<p>This is a clear indication that the discipline among ministers is absolutely at low level in every aspect<\/p>\n<p>President should sack them and send them home or ask them to join Veddah clan and develpp their cricket skills ?<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Dr Sarath Obeysekera This is second time Ministry of Sports has bungles up !Sri Lanka Cricket bungling \u2013 the reason for recalling Sri Lanka ODI team frairport? I wonder whether the Prime Minister who heads ministers of the Cabinet and the President who heads the whole cabinet carries out any Performance Evaluation of their Ministers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sarath-obeysekera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74238","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=74238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}