{"id":99250,"date":"2020-02-23T17:17:26","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T00:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=99250"},"modified":"2020-02-23T17:17:26","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T00:17:26","slug":"sl-vs-wi-wanindu-hasaranga-de-silva-proved-his-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/02\/23\/sl-vs-wi-wanindu-hasaranga-de-silva-proved-his-worth\/","title":{"rendered":"SL Vs WI: Wanindu Hasaranga De Silva Proved His Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dilrook Kannangara<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>At long last\nTeam Sri Lanka managed to win a short version of cricket in a stunning display\nof aggression amidst glorious uncertainties of cricket. Excellent start by the\nopeners was quickly lost down the batting order until Wanindu Hasaranga\nsteadied the ship. He joins the team as a bowler but his batting skills were\nlong highlighted by yours truly almost a year ago at a time when not very many\nknew him as international cricketing material. This is not the first time he\nproved his worth and certainly won\u2019t be his last.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-lankaweb-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"OP63yDkxJs\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/04\/15\/best-twenty-man-squad-for-wc2019-including-wanidu-hasaranga\/\">Best Twenty Man Squad for WC2019 Including Wanidu Hasaranga<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Best Twenty Man Squad for WC2019 Including Wanidu Hasaranga&#8221; &#8212; LankaWeb.com\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/04\/15\/best-twenty-man-squad-for-wc2019-including-wanidu-hasaranga\/embed\/#?secret=F2pQDYkQHl#?secret=OP63yDkxJs\" data-secret=\"OP63yDkxJs\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He should\nhave been exposed to World Cup matches last year as I recommended in the above\narticle. However, it was not done. Had he got a chance, Team Sri Lanka\u2019s\nperformance would have been better. More importantly it would have given the\nthen 21 year old great experience which would serve handy for the team in years\nto come. He was only confined to the reserve list. Team selection is strange to\nsay the least!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He should be\nplayed in as many matches as possible in the shorter versions of the game. At\nhis current age of 22 he has a long way ahead. All support should be provided\nto enhance his performance. Although he failed to take a wicket, he had the\nbest economic run rate in his bowling. His batting was not rash but well\ncontrolled. Knowing little support was forthcoming from the other end to boost\nthe run rate, he rose to the occasion selectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do well\nHasaranga!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dilrook Kannangara At long last Team Sri Lanka managed to win a short version of cricket in a stunning display of aggression amidst glorious uncertainties of cricket. Excellent start by the openers was quickly lost down the batting order until Wanindu Hasaranga steadied the ship. He joins the team as a bowler but his batting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dilrook-kannangara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99250","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=99250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}