{"id":45934,"date":"2018-10-31T11:29:11","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T11:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=45934"},"modified":"2018-10-31T11:29:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T11:29:11","slug":"england-cricketers-warned-over-sri-lanka-upheaval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/england-cricketers-warned-over-sri-lanka-upheaval\/","title":{"rendered":"England cricketers warned over Sri Lanka upheaval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colombo<br \/>\nEngland\u2019s cricket stars have been told to stay away from political demonstrations while touring Sri Lanka, which is in the grip of a constitutional power struggle. \u201cWe are exercising vigilance and avoiding all demonstrations or large political gatherings,\u201d said England spokesman Danny Reuben. \u201cWe are aware of a political demonstration today, but for us it is all about preparations for the first Test.\u201d Reuben said a four-day practice match in Colombo would go ahead as planned, despite the troubles in the capital.<\/p>\n<p>England take on Sri Lanka in the first Test at Galle on November 6. England are due to stay in Sri Lanka until November 27, when the third Test ends. On Sunday, bodyguards for Petroleum Minister Arjuna Ranatunga, Sri Lanka\u2019s captain when they won the 1996 World Cup, opened fire at a crowd. Ranatunga was arrested Monday on an allegation of ordering the shooting, but was released on bail.<\/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>Colombo England\u2019s cricket stars have been told to stay away from political demonstrations while touring Sri Lanka, which is in the grip of a constitutional power struggle. \u201cWe are exercising vigilance and avoiding all demonstrations or large political gatherings,\u201d said England spokesman Danny Reuben. \u201cWe are aware of a political demonstration today, but for us [&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":45935,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45934","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\/45934","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=45934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45936,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45934\/revisions\/45936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}