{"id":4386,"date":"2022-09-01T20:39:15","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T15:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=242912"},"modified":"2022-09-01T20:41:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T15:11:36","slug":"asia-cup-live-asitha-fernando-strikes-his-maiden-t20i-wicket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/asia-cup-live-asitha-fernando-strikes-his-maiden-t20i-wicket\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia Cup Live: Asitha Fernando strikes his maiden T20I wicket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Asitha Fernando clinched his maiden wicket as he sent Sabbir Rahman back to the pavilion.<\/p>\n<p>Sabbir Rahman attempted to pull but struggled with his footwork because of the confined space. The late shot played by the batsman edged the delivery towards wicket-keeper who took an easy catch.<\/p>\n<p>When Sri Lanka\u2019s captain Dasun Shanaka won the toss against Bangladesh in the last Asia Cup Group B match, he elected to field first. After Afghanistan easily defeated Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, both teams are in a knockout\u00a0situation. Afghanistan has advanced to the Super 4s, where they will be joined by the winner of tonight\u2019s game in Dubai.<\/p>\n<p>In a clean seamer-for-seamer swap,\u00a0<strong>Asitha Fernando<\/strong>\u00a0replaces Matheesha Pathirana to make his T20I debut for Sri Lanka. Mohammad Saifuddin, Anamul Haque, and both of Bangladesh\u2019s openers Mohammad Naim were dropped. They have added Sabbir Rahman and Mehidy Hasan Miraz in addition to giving\u00a0<strong>Ebadot Hossain<\/strong>\u00a0his debut in the shortest format.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sabbir Rahman the maiden victim of Asitha Fernando! \ud83d\udc4a <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WRsuVcxQGO\">pic.twitter.com\/WRsuVcxQGO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sri Lanka Cricket \ud83c\uddf1\ud83c\uddf0 (@OfficialSLC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OfficialSLC\/status\/1565346757982429188?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asitha Fernando clinched his maiden wicket as he sent Sabbir Rahman back to the pavilion. Sabbir Rahman attempted to pull\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":27405,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1585,427,737],"class_list":["post-4386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-asia-cup","tag-bangladesh","tag-sri-lanka"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4386","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\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}