{"id":34431,"date":"2018-06-17T12:04:28","date_gmt":"2018-06-17T12:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=34431"},"modified":"2018-06-17T12:04:28","modified_gmt":"2018-06-17T12:04:28","slug":"sri-lanka-cricket-board-back-players-in-ball-tampering-row-vs-west-indies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/sri-lanka-cricket-board-back-players-in-ball-tampering-row-vs-west-indies\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka Cricket Board back players in ball-tampering row vs West Indies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sri Lanka\u2019s cricketers were continuing their second Test against West Indies \u2018under protest\u2019 after they were accused by match officials of altering the condition of the ball.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s players refused to take the field on the third day of the match in St Lucia on Saturday, delaying the resumption of play for almost two hours, after the International Cricket Council said umpires Aleem Dar and Ian Gould had changed the ball and awarded West Indies five penalty runs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ICC can confirm the match officials in the second test between West Indies and Sri Lanka changed the ball and awarded 5 penalty runs to West Indies,\u201d the ICC said in a statement on their Twitter feed. \u201cIf there are any, Code of Conduct charges will follow as per usual at close of play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSLC advised the team to take the field to ensure the continuity of the match and wish to commend the decision taken by the team to continue with the game \u2018under protest\u2019 to ensure the upholding of the spirit of the game,\u201d the organisation said in a statement on Cricinfo .<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe team management has informed us that Sri Lankan players have not engaged in any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSLC shall take all necessary steps to defend any player, in the event any unwarranted allegation is brought against a member of the team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka were 34 for one in their second innings at the end of the third day, trailing West Indies by 13 runs after the hosts were dismissed for 300. West Indies won the first test by 226 runs.<\/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 Lanka\u2019s cricketers were continuing their second Test against West Indies \u2018under protest\u2019 after they were accused by match officials of altering the condition of the ball. Sri Lanka\u2019s players refused to take the field on the third day of the match in St Lucia on Saturday, delaying the resumption of play for almost two [&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":34432,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34431","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\/34431","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=34431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34433,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34431\/revisions\/34433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}