{"id":78130,"date":"2020-01-12T10:18:11","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T10:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=78130"},"modified":"2020-01-12T10:18:12","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T10:18:12","slug":"captain-lasith-malinga-registers-dubious-record-after-pune-thrashing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/captain-lasith-malinga-registers-dubious-record-after-pune-thrashing\/","title":{"rendered":"Captain Lasith Malinga registers dubious record after Pune thrashing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sri Lanka skipper Lasith Malinga jumped to the top spot in an unwanted list after his team was thrashed in the third T20I at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune on Friday. India crushed Sri Lanka by 78 runs in the final T20I to take the series 2-0 (the first match was abandoned without a ball being bowled). Courtesy of this loss, Malinga has now registered a dubious record in the shortest format of the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Malinga has won just 8 matches out of 22 in which he has led the team. His win percentage is 31.8%, which is the lowest for a captain in T20Is . Malinga surpassed former Bangladesh skipper Shakib Al Hasan in this unwanted list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the end of the match, Malinga blamed himself for the drubbing against India but admitted that leading an inexperienced side is affecting his performance. The veteran pacer said lack of early wickets and partnerships were the main reasons behind their meek surrender.<\/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 skipper Lasith Malinga jumped to the top spot in an unwanted list after his team was thrashed in the third T20I at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune on Friday. India crushed Sri Lanka by 78 runs in the final T20I to take the series 2-0 (the first match was abandoned without [&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":78131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78130","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\/78130","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=78130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78132,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78130\/revisions\/78132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}