{"id":1692979,"date":"2022-10-16T08:49:32","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T12:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1692979"},"modified":"2022-10-16T09:19:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T13:19:06","slug":"cricket-sri-lanka-stunned-by-namibia-in-t20-world-cup-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cricket-sri-lanka-stunned-by-namibia-in-t20-world-cup-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket-Sri Lanka stunned by Namibia in T20 World Cup opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcricket-sri-lanka-stunned-by-namibia-in-t20-world-cup-opener%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1692979&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By Ian Ransom<\/p>\n<p>GEELONG, Australia (Reuters) -Sri Lanka\u2019s T20 World Cup campaign got off to a disastrous start on Sunday as the former champions crashed to a 55-run defeat by Namibia in Geelong.<\/p>\n<p>Arriving as surprise Asia Cup champions, Sri Lanka had hoped to make an early statement against the African associate side in front of thousands of expectant supporters on a sun-bathed afternoon at Kardinia Park.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, it was Namibia soaking up their finest international win a year after storming into the Super 12s at the last World Cup in the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>Bowled out for 108 after chasing 164 for victory, the 2014 champions Sri Lanka can afford no slip-ups in their qualifying matches against United Arab Emirates on Tuesday and the Netherlands on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>All-rounder Jan Frylinck was man-of-the-match, top-scoring with 44 from 28 balls as Namibia put on a respectable total on a drop-in wicket. <\/p>\n<p>He then picked up the wickets of Dhananjaya de Silva (12) and captain Dasun Shanaka (29) with his left-arm pace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a little bit speechless at the moment, what we\u2019ve just achieved is above what we thought we could do,\u201d said Frylinck.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow I\u2019m just very excited at this point in time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMyself and JJ (Smit) got us to a competitive total and the bowlers just stepped up and it was unbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka crashed to 21 for three and their chase was all but over when Shanaka fell for 29, his team still 76 runs short with three wickets in hand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the surface played really well but the execution was not there when it comes to their bowling,\u201d said Shanaka.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce we lost three wickets in the powerplay, we were out of the game \u2026 We\u2019ve got a good team but it\u2019s all about the process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we\u2019re chasing 160 we need (the top order) to kick in. And the bowlers need to hit the right areas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka will have to pick themselves up without the services of left-arm fast bowler Dilshan Madushanka, who was ruled out of the tournament with a quadriceps muscle tear.<\/p>\n<p>He was replaced in the squad by Binura Fernando.<\/p>\n<p>With a heavy South African flavour in their coaching, Namibia have been the big improvers among the second-tier sides and will back themselves to make another trip to the Super 12s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIncredible journey. Last year was a special experience for us and we\u2019ve topped that with a great win,\u201d captain Gerhard Erasmus said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA historic day for us but we want to kick on from here and make that Super 12.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Netherlands pipped United Arab Emirates by three wickets in the other Group A match to boost their Super 12 hopes.<\/p>\n<p>Bas de Leede (3-19) led their disciplined attack as they restricted the UAE to 111-8.<\/p>\n<p>When they returned chase, the Dutch side spluttered before prevailing in a tight finish with one ball to spare.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Ian Ransom in Geelong, Australia; additional reporting by Amlan Chakraborty in New<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ian Ransom GEELONG, Australia (Reuters) -Sri Lanka\u2019s T20 World Cup campaign got off to a disastrous start on Sunday as the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1889752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[542],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1692979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oann"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_finder_url":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/sports\/cricket-sri-lanka-stunned-by\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cricket-sri-lanka-stunned-by","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1692979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1889752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1692979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1692979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1692979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}