{"id":176427,"date":"2021-01-03T05:08:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-03T03:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-news-injury-hit-sri-lanka-can-still-compete-insists-karunaratne\/"},"modified":"2021-01-03T05:08:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T03:08:30","slug":"sa-news-injury-hit-sri-lanka-can-still-compete-insists-karunaratne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-news-injury-hit-sri-lanka-can-still-compete-insists-karunaratne\/","title":{"rendered":"SA News: Injury-hit Sri Lanka can still compete, insists Karunaratne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=E052895B731E43B080BAB8314016BAE0&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.dawn.com%2fnews%2f1599318&#038;c=1718216990532483452&#038;mkt=en-gb\">Injury-hit Sri Lanka can still compete, insists Karunaratne<\/a>: Sri Lanka will be without several key players for the second Test against South Africa but captain Dimuth Karunaratne insists his side could still prove competitive when the match gets underway at the &#8230;<br \/>\n<small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=E052895B731E43B080BAB8314016BAE0&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.dawn.com%2fnews%2f1599318&#038;c=1718216990532483452&#038;mkt=en-gb\">&#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews<\/a><\/small><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=E052895B731E43B080BAB8314016BAE0&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.thetimes.co.uk%2farticle%2fsorry-owen-farrell-finn-russell-is-my-no-10-with-dan-biggar-on-bench-dvtcplvcc&#038;c=9828128229615957988&#038;mkt=en-gb\">Sorry, Owen Farrell, Finn Russell is my No 10 with Dan Biggar on bench<\/a>: If the British &#038; Irish Lions were playing the first Test against South Africa in six days, Finn Russell would be the form choice at fly half. Given the state of the pandemic, it is a massive \u201cif\u201d &#8230;<br \/>\n<small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=E052895B731E43B080BAB8314016BAE0&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.thetimes.co.uk%2farticle%2fsorry-owen-farrell-finn-russell-is-my-no-10-with-dan-biggar-on-bench-dvtcplvcc&#038;c=9828128229615957988&#038;mkt=en-gb\">&#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews<\/a><\/small><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=E052895B731E43B080BAB8314016BAE0&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.bbc.com%2fsport%2frugby-union%2f55516819&#038;c=14177242672905906595&#038;mkt=en-gb\">British and Irish Lions &#8216;very aware&#8217; of need to make decision on South Africa tour<\/a>: The British and Irish Lions board will hold talks in the coming weeks to decide whether this summer&#8217;s tour can go ahead.<br \/>\n<small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=E052895B731E43B080BAB8314016BAE0&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.bbc.com%2fsport%2frugby-union%2f55516819&#038;c=14177242672905906595&#038;mkt=en-gb\">&#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews<\/a><\/small><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Injury-hit Sri Lanka can still compete, insists Karunaratne: Sri Lanka will be without several key players for the second Test against South Africa but captain Dimuth Karunaratne insists his side could still prove competitive when the match gets underway at the &#8230; Source: &#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews Sorry, Owen Farrell, Finn Russell is my No [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[8665,29258,14305,34474,14968,830,5739],"class_list":{"0":"post-176427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-compete","8":"tag-injuryhit","9":"tag-insists","10":"tag-karunaratne","11":"tag-lanka","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-still","14":"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\/176427","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=176427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}