{"id":1586,"date":"2017-08-08T12:16:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T12:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=1586"},"modified":"2017-08-08T12:16:31","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T12:16:31","slug":"india-vs-sri-lanka-unfit-rangana-herath-ruled-out-of-3rd-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/india-vs-sri-lanka-unfit-rangana-herath-ruled-out-of-3rd-test\/","title":{"rendered":"India vs Sri Lanka: Unfit Rangana Herath ruled out of 3rd Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lankan spinner Rangana Herath has been ruled out of the third Test against India to be held in Kandy.<\/p>\n<p>Veteran left-arm spinner Rangana Herath has been ruled out of Sri Lanka\u2019s third Test against India owing to back pain.<\/p>\n<p>With Sri Lanka already losing the series and a hectic Test season ahead, the team management decided on resting the veteran spinner.<\/p>\n<p>Herath was injured in the first Test while fielding but recovered sufficiently to play in the second Test.<\/p>\n<p>Herath joins the list of other Sri Lankan players like all-rounder Asela Gunaratne, pacers Suranga Lakmal and Nuwan Pradeep, who have all been ruled out of the series.<\/p>\n<p>In the 39-year-old\u2019s absence, left-arm spinner Malinda Pushpakumara will be leading the spin challenge, a role he has been prepared for as and when Herath retires.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lankan spinner Rangana Herath has been ruled out of the third Test against India to be held in Kandy. Veteran left-arm spinner Rangana Herath has been ruled out of Sri Lanka\u2019s third Test against India owing to back pain. With Sri Lanka already losing the series and a hectic Test season ahead, the team [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1588,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions\/1588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}