{"id":24225,"date":"2021-03-01T06:36:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T06:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=24225"},"modified":"2021-03-01T06:36:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T06:36:04","slug":"mathews-steps-down-as-sri-lanka-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2021\/03\/01\/mathews-steps-down-as-sri-lanka-captain\/","title":{"rendered":"Mathews steps down as Sri Lanka captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sports Desk:<\/strong> Sri Lanka&#8217;s new T20 captain Dasun Shanakar&#8217;s tour of the West Indies is completely uncertain due to visa complications. Shanaka could not go to the Caribbean with the team. That is why the Sri Lanka Cricket Board (SLC) has appointed Angelo Mathews as the acting captain of the T20 team.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the SLC said the Shanakar visa issue has not yet been resolved. So Mathews has been given the responsibility. In international cricket, the experienced all-rounder has led Sri Lanka in 34 Tests, 106 ODIs and 13 T20s. The Sri Lankan team went to the West Indies in transit to the United States. Shanaka lost her previous passport with a valid five-year US visa. That&#8217;s why he couldn&#8217;t go with the team last Monday. The West Indies-Sri Lanka T20 series will start on March 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports Desk: Sri Lanka&rsquo;s new T20 captain Dasun Shanakar&rsquo;s tour of the West Indies is completely uncertain due to visa complications. Shanaka could not go to the Caribbean with the team. That is why the Sri Lanka Cricket Board (SLC) has appointed Angelo Mathews as the acting captain of the T20 team. In a statement, the SLC said the Shanakar visa issue has not yet been resolved. So Mathews has been given the responsibility. In international cricket, the experienced all-rounder has led Sri Lanka in 34 Tests, 106 ODIs and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":24226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24227,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24225\/revisions\/24227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}