{"id":7315,"date":"2012-01-23T21:03:48","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T19:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/update-1-cricket-jayawardene-reappointed-sri-lanka-captain\/"},"modified":"2012-01-23T21:03:48","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T19:03:48","slug":"update-1-cricket-jayawardene-reappointed-sri-lanka-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-cricket-jayawardene-reappointed-sri-lanka-captain\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Cricket-Jayawardene reappointed Sri Lanka captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(recasts with new appointment)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">COLOMBO<\/span> Jan 23 (Reuters) &#8211; Sri Lanka&#8217;s Tillakaratne<br \/>\nDilshan has resigned from the captaincy and former skipper<br \/>\nMahela Jayawardene has been reappointed to the role, the island<br \/>\nnation&#8217;s sports minister said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dilshan has sent his resignation letter so therefore the<br \/>\nselectors met today and appointed Mahela Jayawardene as the<br \/>\ncaptain and Angelo Mathews as the vice captain,&#8221; Sports Minister<br \/>\nMahindananda Aluthgamage told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dilshan quit a day after returning from South Africa where<br \/>\nSri Lanka lost the three-match test series 2-1 and five-match<br \/>\none-day series 3-2.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Taking over from Kumar Sangakkara after a six-wicket defeat<br \/>\nin the 2011 World Cup final against India, Dilshan led the team<br \/>\nto England, South Africa and in a home series against Australia<br \/>\nbut failed to win a single test or one-day series.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Jayawardene captained the team for more than three years<br \/>\nfrom 2006 before Sangakkara took over.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The stylish batsman, who led Sri Lanka to the 2007 World Cup<br \/>\nrunners-up spot, will be the captain for all three formats of<br \/>\nthe game.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Shihar Aneez and Ranga Sirilal, editing by Mark<br \/>\nMeadows)<\/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>(recasts with new appointment) COLOMBO Jan 23 (Reuters) &#8211; Sri Lanka&#8217;s Tillakaratne Dilshan has resigned from the captaincy and former skipper Mahela Jayawardene has been reappointed to the role, the island nation&#8217;s sports minister said on Monday. &#8220;Dilshan has sent his resignation letter so therefore the selectors met today and appointed Mahela Jayawardene as the [&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-7315","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\/7315","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=7315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}