{"id":14454,"date":"2012-09-10T16:07:59","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T14:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/cricket-sangakkara-and-kulasekara-boost-sri-lanka-hopes\/"},"modified":"2012-09-10T16:07:59","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T14:07:59","slug":"cricket-sangakkara-and-kulasekara-boost-sri-lanka-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/cricket-sangakkara-and-kulasekara-boost-sri-lanka-hopes\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket-Sangakkara and Kulasekara boost Sri Lanka hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">COLOMBO, Sept 10<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Sri Lanka batsman Kumar<br \/>\nSangakkara and fast bowler Nuwan Kulasekara are winning their<br \/>\nbattle to be fit for this month&#8217;s Twenty20 World Cup on home<br \/>\nsoil.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old Sangakkara is recovering from a broken<br \/>\nfinger while Kulasekara, 30, has been troubled by a groin<br \/>\nstrain.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kumar is fine,&#8221; captain Mahela Jayawardene told reporters<br \/>\non Monday. &#8220;He has been asking our coaches for extra net<br \/>\nsessions and is coming along very nicely.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nuwan has been bowling at 80 to 90 percent during the last<br \/>\ncouple of weeks and next week we will let him push himself even<br \/>\nfurther.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka open the tournament with a match against Group C<br \/>\nrivals Zimbabwe at Hambantota on Sept 18 and then play South<br \/>\nAfrica at the same venue four days later.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have played at Hambantota before and the wind there<br \/>\npresents some challenges,&#8221; Jayawardene said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But it is the same for the other teams as well. With the<br \/>\nexperience we have we should see how we can use it to our<br \/>\nadvantage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The top two in the three-team group will advance to the<br \/>\nSuper Eight stage.<\/p>\n<p> (Writing by Shihar Aneez; editing by Tony Jimenez)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLOMBO, Sept 10 (Reuters) &#8211; Sri Lanka batsman Kumar Sangakkara and fast bowler Nuwan Kulasekara are winning their battle to be fit for this month&#8217;s Twenty20 World Cup on home soil. The 34-year-old Sangakkara is recovering from a broken finger while Kulasekara, 30, has been troubled by a groin strain. &#8220;Kumar is fine,&#8221; captain Mahela [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-14454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}