{"id":3948,"date":"2022-06-27T23:48:36","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T18:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=230235"},"modified":"2022-06-27T23:48:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T18:18:36","slug":"sri-lanka-cricket-to-dedicate-the-first-test-against-australia-to-the-memory-of-shane-warne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/sri-lanka-cricket-to-dedicate-the-first-test-against-australia-to-the-memory-of-shane-warne\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka Cricket to dedicate the first Test against Australia to the memory of Shane Warne"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Srilanka\u00a0get ready to take on Australia, the host nation are gearing up to give a fitting tribute to the late legend Shane Warne<\/a>. Both the Test matches between Sri Lanka and Australia will be played in Galle, the ground where\u00a0Warne had accomplished the milestone of 500 Test wickets at the same location in 2004, which also happened to be his final visit of the island nation in whites.<\/p>\n

Warne passed away unexpectedly at the age of 53 following a heart attack on March 4 this year while on vacation in Thailand. Sri Lanka Cricket\u2019s effort to devote the first test to his memory will undoubtedly be a very melancholy event.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Sri Lankan cricket establishment\u2019s gesture is one of recognising Warne as a true friend of Sri Lanka who came to the country\u2019s aid during the 2004 Tsunami devastation by personally flying over and visiting affected areas and making generous donations, especially to homeless cricketer families. This writer had the privilege of having a word with the legend on that occasion when he visited the Moratuwa Cricket Stadium where several teenage cricketers were lined up in a guard of honour. He did voice that he was concerned about the welfare of Sri Lankans affected and as much saddened by the devastation of the Galle Stadium,\u201d SLC in a statement said.<\/p>\n

Also, Shane Warne\u2019s family has been invited to join the ceremony that would begin just before the commencement of the first Test.<\/p>\n

On addition to having an impressive track record with the ball in the island country, Warne also had an influence through his humanitarian work. The former leg-spinner made a huge contribution to the nation\u2019s recovery by personally visiting the nation in the wake of the devastating tsunami in 2004.<\/p>\n

The Galle International Cricket Stadium will host the opening match of the two-match Test series between Sri Lanka and Australia, which is a part of the ICC World Test Championship<\/a> 2021\u201323 cycle. The second Test match will take place there from July 8\u201312 as well. The previous ODI series had been won by Sri Lanka 4-1, making it their first ever home series victory against Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Australian legend played in Galle Stadium, where he has become the first bowler in test cricket history to achieve 500 wickets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":26990,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[782,1410,733],"class_list":["post-3948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-shane-warne","tag-sri-lanka-cricket","tag-tribute"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}