{"id":158,"date":"2014-03-27T18:10:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T18:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kashmir-today.net\/england-beat-sri-lanka-in-t20-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2014-03-27T18:10:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T18:10:00","slug":"england-beat-sri-lanka-in-t20-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=158","title":{"rendered":"England beat Sri Lanka in T20 world cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">England stay alive at the T20 cricket World Cup in Bangladesh and have handed favourites Sri Lanka their first loss at the tournament after a 6 wicket victory.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kashmir.watch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/10007536_10151911550510194_1391762308_n.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/kashmir.watch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/10007536_10151911550510194_1391762308_n.jpg\" height=\"268\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Sri Lanka made 189 for 4 with Mahela Jayawardene scoring 89 and Tillakaratne Dilshan 55.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">England lost 2 wickets in the first over of their run chase, but Alex Hales and Eoin Morgan put on 152 for the third wicket with Hales&#8217; unbeaten 116 guiding them home with 4 balls to spare.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Meanwhile South Africa survived a major scare as they managed to scramble past rank outsiders the Netherlands by six runs.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">The Dutch, who posted the lowest T20 international score of 39 in Monday&#8217;s rout by Sri Lanka, started well in their chase for 146, but lost regular wickets to be bowled out for 139 in the 19th over.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">New Zealand play the Netherlands in their next match tomorrow night.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Sri Lanka and South Africa top the group with 4 points, New Zealand and England have 2 and the Netherlands none.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England stay alive at the T20 cricket World Cup in Bangladesh and have handed favourites Sri Lanka their first loss at the tournament after a 6 wicket victory. Sri Lanka made 189 for 4 with Mahela Jayawardene scoring 89 and Tillakaratne Dilshan 55. England lost 2 wickets in the first over of their run chase, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}