{"id":90451,"date":"2019-06-16T15:35:28","date_gmt":"2019-06-16T22:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=90451"},"modified":"2019-06-16T15:35:28","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T22:35:28","slug":"sri-lankan-cricket-against-australia-positives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/06\/16\/sri-lankan-cricket-against-australia-positives\/","title":{"rendered":"SRI LANKAN CRICKET AGAINST AUSTRALIA \u2013 POSITIVES"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Our\nTeam must be encouraged by the quality of cricket played by them against World\nChampion Australia<strong>.&nbsp; We did not succumb to mighty Aussies. We did not\nfear their bowling attack. <\/strong>&nbsp;All commentators <strong>Mark Nicholson,\nMichael Clark, Mathew Heyden &nbsp;agreed on the signs of reincarnation of\nSanath and Kalu days of Sri Lanka. The World best Cricketing Analyst our own\nbest product &nbsp;Kumar Sangakkara injected his articulated vocabulary to\nbring his motherland to the hilt.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\nare clear signs of emergence of fighting spirit of Sri Lankan cricket once\nagain<strong>.&nbsp; Isuru Udana turned the tables. Relatively unknown ODI batsman\nknown as Dimuth Karunaratne flew high Sri Lankan Flag.&nbsp; Kusal Janith once\nagain rejuvenated skills of batting sending &nbsp;deliveries of Mitchell Starc,\nPat Cummins, Richardson to &nbsp;the boundary and over the boundary.&nbsp; <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Commentator\nMark Nicolson was virtually nervous in his commentaries when Dimuth and Kusal\nwere batting.&nbsp; <strong>He indirectly hinted that a victory for Sri Lanka would\nbe a foregone conclusion.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dimuth\nhas provided Leadership.&nbsp;&nbsp; He need to provide Motivation to bring the\ntaste of victory.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dimuth\ncan do it and he will do it with the Team to bring back the glory of Sri Lankan\ncricket to the forefront.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jayawewa,\nSri Lanka.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By M D P DISSANAYAKE Our Team must be encouraged by the quality of cricket played by them against World Champion Australia.&nbsp; We did not succumb to mighty Aussies. We did not fear their bowling attack. &nbsp;All commentators Mark Nicholson, Michael Clark, Mathew Heyden &nbsp;agreed on the signs of reincarnation of Sanath and Kalu days [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90451","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\/90451","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=90451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}