{"id":118,"date":"2011-11-01T18:12:51","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T18:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maldivescricket.org\/SAARCT20CUP\/?p=118"},"modified":"2011-11-01T18:14:15","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T18:14:15","slug":"sri-lanka-wins-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maldivescricket.org\/SAARCT20CUP\/2011\/11\/01\/sri-lanka-wins-big\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka wins big"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maldivescricket.org\/SAARCT20CUP\/2011\/11\/01\/sri-lanka-wins-big\/img_9282\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-119\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-119\" title=\"IMG_9282\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maldivescricket.org\/SAARCT20CUP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_9282.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maldivescricket.org\/SAARCT20CUP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_9282.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.maldivescricket.org\/SAARCT20CUP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_9282-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a>Sri Lanka set the pace for the SAARC Twenty20 Cup by beating Nepal by 76 runs. After winning the toss Sri Lanka decided to bat first. They made most of the small boundaries with big hits all over the ground. Danishka Mestiyage led from the front making the tournament\u2019s first century. He made 105 runs from 51 balls which included 8 sixes. Bhanuka Perara was the other top scorer for the side, making 58 runs from 38 balls.\u00a0 Angelo Perara made 36 runs and\u00a0 Shehan Jayasuriya, 21 runs. Paras Khadka took 3 wickets for 57 runs for Nepal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maldivescricket.org\/SAARCT20CUP\/2011\/11\/01\/sri-lanka-wins-big\/img_9015\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-120\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-120\" title=\"IMG_9015\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maldivescricket.org\/SAARCT20CUP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_9015.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maldivescricket.org\/SAARCT20CUP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_9015.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.maldivescricket.org\/SAARCT20CUP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_9015-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a>As Nepal went in to bat, the run chase looked formidable. But they went in fighting with some big hitting by\u00a0 Pradeep Airee (35), Prithu Baskota (32) and Binod Bandari (25). However, they could only manage to score 164 runs for the loss of 9 wickets.\u00a0 Ramith Rambukewella and Bhanku Rajapakse took 3 wickets each for the Sri Lankans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka set the pace for the SAARC Twenty20 Cup by beating Nepal by 76 runs. After winning the toss Sri Lanka decided to bat first. They made most of the small boundaries with big hits all over the ground. Danishka Mestiyage led from the front making the tournament\u2019s first century. He made 105 runs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.maldivescricket.org\/SAARCT20CUP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_9282.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maldivescricket.org\/SAARCT20CUP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maldivescricket.org\/SAARCT20CUP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maldivescricket.org\/SAARCT20CUP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maldivescricket.org\/SAARCT20CUP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maldivescricket.org\/SAARCT20CUP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.maldivescricket.org\/SAARCT20CUP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124,"href":"https:\/\/www.maldivescricket.org\/SAARCT20CUP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maldivescricket.org\/SAARCT20CUP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maldivescricket.org\/SAARCT20CUP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maldivescricket.org\/SAARCT20CUP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maldivescricket.org\/SAARCT20CUP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}