{"id":85412,"date":"2019-02-07T16:40:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T23:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=85412"},"modified":"2019-02-07T16:40:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T23:40:45","slug":"never-write-off-sri-lankan-cricket-sri-lanka-to-repeat-history-in-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/02\/07\/never-write-off-sri-lankan-cricket-sri-lanka-to-repeat-history-in-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"NEVER WRITE OFF SRI LANKAN CRICKET-SRI LANKA TO REPEAT HISTORY IN WORLD CUP"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em><strong>By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Just before in 1996, if anyone said Sri Lanka will beat Australia in world cup final, those comments would have gone into the dust bin.<\/p>\n<p>We now have talented fighters, experienced in all 3 forms of cricket. Our pool is strong, technically competent. Compared with many other nations, Sri Lanka has at least won the World Cup Cricket once and came almost winning the second time if <strong>not for the Adam Gilcrest Squash Ball cheating!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our players always need not have name tags of Kalpage, Jayasuriya, Romesh, Mahanama, Aravinda, Arjuna, Upul Chandana, Darmasena, Murali..\u00a0 <strong>Since 1996 we had names such as: Mahela, Kumar, Murali, Vass etc. but did we win any world cup? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our team needs meditation, motivation. Our coach can be anyone, it does not matter.\u00a0 Steve Waugh learned cricket in his back yard, so all Sri Lankans learn cricket in the back yard and nearby parks.<\/p>\n<p>We only know one thing:\u00a0 When ball is delivered, hii it hard if it is the right ball.\u00a0 <strong>The problem is trying to apply this concept for each delivery.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>My Sri Lanka will be , next World Cup Winners under Dimuth Karunaratne and Niroshan Dickwella.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cheers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By M D P DISSANAYAKE Just before in 1996, if anyone said Sri Lanka will beat Australia in world cup final, those comments would have gone into the dust bin. We now have talented fighters, experienced in all 3 forms of cricket. Our pool is strong, technically competent. Compared with many other nations, Sri Lanka [&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-85412","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\/85412","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=85412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}