{"id":35152,"date":"2018-06-24T12:32:31","date_gmt":"2018-06-24T12:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=35152"},"modified":"2018-06-24T12:32:31","modified_gmt":"2018-06-24T12:32:31","slug":"west-indies-battle-against-sri-lanka-on-rain-hit-day-in-pink-ball-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/west-indies-battle-against-sri-lanka-on-rain-hit-day-in-pink-ball-test\/","title":{"rendered":"West Indies battle against Sri Lanka on rain-hit day in Pink Ball Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka made a strong start to the third Test against West Indies, who battled back on a rain-hit opening day.<\/p>\n<p>The Windies, leading the three-match series 1-0, slumped to 24-4 before reaching stumps at 132-5 at Bridgetown in a day-night Test Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Shane Dowrich (60) and captain Jason Holder (33) were unbeaten at stumps, rescuing the hosts after a poor start.<\/p>\n<p>Kasun Rajitha (2-36) and Suranga Lakmal (2-42) did the early damage for Sri Lanka, who made the most of a grassy wicket after the Windies elected to bat.<\/p>\n<p>Lakmal landed a blow in the opening over, having Devon Smith edge to Dhananjaya de Silva at third slip for two.<\/p>\n<p>He also removed Kraigg Brathwaite (2) before Lahiru Kumara (1-40) took the wicket of Kieran Powell (4).<\/p>\n<p>Rain \u2013 which led to just 46.3 overs being bowled on the opening day \u2013 was a constant, with the Windies slumping to 53-5 after Rajitha had Roston Chase (14) playing on and Shai Hope (11) caught at slip.<\/p>\n<p>But Dowrich and Holder provided a much-needed response for the hosts, putting on an unbeaten 79-run partnership before rain brought an end to the day\u2019s play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka made a strong start to the third Test against West Indies, who battled back on a rain-hit opening day. The Windies, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35152","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\/35152","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=35152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35154,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35152\/revisions\/35154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}