{"id":91425,"date":"2019-07-15T15:23:41","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T22:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=91425"},"modified":"2019-07-15T15:23:41","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T22:23:41","slug":"cricket-champaign-and-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/07\/15\/cricket-champaign-and-muslims\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket ,Champaign and Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>I was watching the greatest game ever last night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After lifting the cup jubilant English players were holding\nthe cup&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After holding the cup Champaign bottles were uncoked<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I noted that two bearded Muslim players slowly and unnoticed creep away until Champaign is sprayed all over the players\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"570\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/match2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-91426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/match2.jpg 570w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/match2-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>News.com .au of Australia published following already .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>England World Cup stars Moeen Ali and Adil Rashid were forced to\nflee the team\u2019s wild celebrations immediately following the World Cup trophy\npresentation in a culture clash for the new world champions.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ali and Rashid bolted from the middle of the trophy podium\nmoments after England captain Eoin Morgan raised the ICC Cricket World Cup\nTrophy and confetti began to shoot from cannons alongside the champions\u201d\nsignage placed in front of the team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the team burst into cheers and flames exploded behind them, teammates\nwere handed sponsored champagne bottles and a few short moments later began\nspraying them in all directions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"365\" height=\"205\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/match3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-91427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/match3.jpg 365w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/match3-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 365px) 100vw, 365px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera\u00a0 I was watching the greatest game ever last night. After lifting the cup jubilant English players were holding the cup&nbsp; After holding the cup Champaign bottles were uncoked I noted that two bearded Muslim players slowly and unnoticed creep away until Champaign is sprayed all over the players\u00a0 News.com .au of Australia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91425","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\/91425","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=91425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}