{"id":174435,"date":"2021-10-19T00:07:58","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T18:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=174435"},"modified":"2021-10-19T00:07:58","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T18:37:58","slug":"dominant-sri-lanka-beat-namibia-by-seven-wickets-in-t20-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/10\/19\/dominant-sri-lanka-beat-namibia-by-seven-wickets-in-t20-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominant Sri Lanka beat Namibia by seven wickets in T20 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abu Dhabi, Oct 18 (PTI) Sri Lanka defeated debutants Namibia by seven wickets in a Group A first round match of the T20 World Cup, here on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Spinners Mahesh Theekshana (3\/25) and Wanindu Hasaranga (2\/24), one of world&#8217;s top spinners, proved too hot for the Namibian batters, who struggled to find a way past the Lankan attack.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sri Lanka&#8217;s chase was led by young Bhanuka Rajapakse (42 not out) and Avishka Fernando (30 not out) as they overhauled the target with ease in 13.3 overs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Sri Lanka players wore black arm bands during the match as a tribute to former skipper Bandula Warnapura, who passed away earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Brief Scores:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Namibia: 96 all out in 19.3 overs (Craig Williams 29, Gerhard Erasmus 20; Maheesh Theekshana 3\/25)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sri Lanka: 100 for 3 in 13.3 overs. (B Rajapakse 42 not out, A Fernando 30 not out; J Smit 1\/8).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abu Dhabi, Oct 18 (PTI) Sri Lanka defeated debutants Namibia by seven wickets in a Group A first round match of the T20 World Cup, here on Monday. Spinners Mahesh Theekshana (3\/25) and Wanindu Hasaranga (2\/24), one of world&#8217;s top spinners, proved too hot for the Namibian batters, who struggled to find a way past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-174435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}