{"id":4443,"date":"2022-09-06T19:17:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T13:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=244215"},"modified":"2022-09-06T19:17:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T13:47:20","slug":"super-4-india-vs-sri-lanka-all-the-last-three-games-have-been-chased-down-here-sri-lanka-captain-explains-why-he-opts-to-field-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/super-4-india-vs-sri-lanka-all-the-last-three-games-have-been-chased-down-here-sri-lanka-captain-explains-why-he-opts-to-field-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Super 4 India vs Sri Lanka: \u201cAll the last three games have been chased down here,\u201d Sri Lanka captain explains why he opts to field first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka have won the toss and as the skipper mentioned that the past three games played here, in the ongoing Asia Cup tournament, have been chased down. India will be allowed to bat first as the island nation eyes for an easy qualification to the finals.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Good luck, boys! \ud83c\uddf1\ud83c\uddf0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RoaringForGlory?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RoaringForGlory<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SLvIND?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SLvIND<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AsiaCup2022?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AsiaCup2022<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Mp84158q6B\">pic.twitter.com\/Mp84158q6B<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sri Lanka Cricket \ud83c\uddf1\ud83c\uddf0 (@OfficialSLC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OfficialSLC\/status\/1567146396280823809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll bowl first because of the record here. All the last three games have been chased down here. The approach has been outstanding by our batters and we hope to continue the same. The coaching staff and the players have created the environment for the new players to come in and deliver,\u201d said skipper Shanaka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka have won the toss and as the skipper mentioned that the past three games played here, in the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":27457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1585,2776,1993,608,2565,1263,737],"class_list":["post-4443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-asia-cup","tag-avesh-khan","tag-dasun-shanaka","tag-kl-rahul","tag-kusal-mendis","tag-slc","tag-sri-lanka"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4443","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=4443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}