{"id":8174,"date":"2017-07-08T16:01:32","date_gmt":"2017-07-08T16:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=8174"},"modified":"2017-07-08T16:01:32","modified_gmt":"2017-07-08T16:01:32","slug":"dickwella-gunathilaka-make-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2017\/07\/08\/dickwella-gunathilaka-make-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Dickwella, Gunathilaka make history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka openers Niroshan Dickwella and Danushka Gunathilaka on Saturday became the first pair in One-day international history to score back-to-back double century partnerships in the fourth ODI against Zimbabwe in Hambantota.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The batting duo, who had put on a 229-run match winning stand in the previous ODI, once again took the fight to Zimbabwe by putting together 209 runs at the Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium, reports indiatimes.com today.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While Dickwella hit his second successive century with a commanding 116, Gunathilaka missed out on what could have been his second ODI ton after being bowled for 87.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Zimbabwe off-spinner Malcolm Waller dismissed the two left-handed batsmen in successive overs to check the Sri Lankan surge.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wicketkeeper-batsman Dickwella, who scored 102 on Thursday at the same venue, played a patient 118-ball knock laced with eight boundaries before being trapped lbw.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Angelo Mathews-led side, which elected to bat first, are looking to take an unassailable lead in the five-match series after being 2-1 ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka openers Niroshan Dickwella and Danushka Gunathilaka on Saturday became the first pair in One-day international history to score back-to-back double century partnerships in the fourth ODI against Zimbabwe in Hambantota. &nbsp; The batting duo, who had put on a 229-run match winning stand in the previous ODI, once again took the fight to Zimbabwe by putting together 209 runs at the Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium, reports indiatimes.com today. &nbsp; While Dickwella hit his second successive century with a commanding 116, Gunathilaka missed out on what could have been<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8175,"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\/8174"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8176,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8174\/revisions\/8176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}