{"id":90494,"date":"2019-06-17T15:16:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T22:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=90494"},"modified":"2019-06-17T15:24:08","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T22:24:08","slug":"sri-lanka-cricket-at-its-worst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/06\/17\/sri-lanka-cricket-at-its-worst\/","title":{"rendered":"SRI LANKA: CRICKET AT ITS WORST"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Mario Perera,Kadawata<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Everything\nin Sri Lanka is at its worst. Sri Lankan cricket is just following that trend.\nThey are of the same mold and model as the others. I agree with Shyamon\nJayasinghe writing in the Colombo Telegraph, that after this world cup debacle\nthe selection committee must resign. That demand is true for the Minister as\nwell. They must all GO. This is the honourable thing to do. But honour is\nnowhere in the country\u2019s vocabulary. The country is bathed in dishonour. What\nhonour in a shit hole?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As\nfar as Srilankan cricket is concerned, many in this team should never have made\nthe trip. The old cronies should have firmly been told to retire. Who are they?\nMathews (body all aching all the time), Malinga (the highest run yielder in\nevery recent format of the game), Thirimanne (block, block, block, no score),\nSiriwardene (good for nothing). Lakmal (gone are the days), Jeevan Mendis (just\nstand and wait), Thisara Perera (a total flop, only bulk), Jeffrey Vandersay (a\nmere nothing), Pradeep (cannot hold a bat to save his soul).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These\ncan no more resuscitate the hope placed in them. They were going, going\ngoing\u2026now they must be told \u2018BE-GONE\u2019. Beaten to a pulp and dead and gone, this\nteam will not rise on the third day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Considering\nthe sterile presence of these TEN on the field, any younger prospect in their\nplace would not have done worse. They would at least have given hope for the\nfuture. The Chairman of the selection committee wrote a scathing letter to the\nWC Organizers about the poor treatment meted to the SL cricket team. Let him be\nreminded that \u2018UNU BATH\u2019 is not for beggars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mario\nPerera<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kadawata<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mario Perera,Kadawata Everything in Sri Lanka is at its worst. Sri Lankan cricket is just following that trend. They are of the same mold and model as the others. I agree with Shyamon Jayasinghe writing in the Colombo Telegraph, that after this world cup debacle the selection committee must resign. That demand is true for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mario-perera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90494","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=90494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}