{"id":90716,"date":"2019-06-24T22:24:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T04:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=90716"},"modified":"2019-06-24T13:39:08","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T20:39:08","slug":"world-cup-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/06\/24\/world-cup-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"WORLD CUP 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>According\nto updated data on 24 June, there are 30 more matches to be played before\nsemi-final.&nbsp; The top four teams as at present viz. England, Australia, NZ\nand India have 13 games amongst themselves .&nbsp; There are 17 more matches\nwith all other teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NZ\nand England have shown some degree of vulnerability thus far. Amongst the\ncurrent top 4 teams, &nbsp;&nbsp;England will face tough opponents of\nAustralia, India and NZ in their remaining encounters.&nbsp; NZ will face\nAustralia. Australia will face England and NZ. And India will face England. In\nthis case, England\u2019s current standing likely to&nbsp; be exposed by Australia,\nIndia and NZ.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>SRI\nLANKA Vs SOUTH AFRICA:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last\ntime SL played &nbsp;ODI at Chester-Le-Street ground was way back in May 2014\nagainst England.&nbsp; SL won by 157 runs. Sachitra Senanayake achieved 4\nwickets.&nbsp; It is claimed to be a spin friendly pitch. This will be the\nfirst time South Africa playing on this ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To\nachieve victory, Sri Lanka must see off Imran Thahir.&nbsp; Kusal Janith, Kusal\nMendis, Avishkha must not try to attack Imran, instead if the players can score\n15 \u2013 20 runs off Imran without losing a wicket that will be stepping stone\ntowards victory.&nbsp; Imran is at his best at the moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>SRI\nLANKA V WEST INDIES:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>West\nIndies have played twice at Chester Ground &nbsp;in July 2000 against England\nand Zimbabwe.&nbsp; On both occasions West Indies lost by massive 10&nbsp; and\n6 wickets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>SRI\nLANKA V INDIA:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At\nLeeds, Sri Lanka played 3 ODIs since 2006 against England, in all occasions, SL\nwon. In the most recently played match in June 2019 world cup against England,\nsubstantial contributions were made by Avishkha, Kusal Mendis and Angelo with\nthe bat, whilst Malinga, Dananjaya and Isuru Udana excelled with the ball.\nDuring the same period, India played 3 matches against &nbsp;England at this\nground, losing two and winning one match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>TEAM\nPERFORMANCES:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Isuru\nUdana is a better all-rounder, compared with Tissera Perera. Avishka Fernando\nneed to play in all three matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By M D P DISSANAYAKE According to updated data on 24 June, there are 30 more matches to be played before semi-final.&nbsp; The top four teams as at present viz. England, Australia, NZ and India have 13 games amongst themselves .&nbsp; There are 17 more matches with all other teams. NZ and England have shown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-m-d-p-dissanayake","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90716","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=90716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}