{"id":75375,"date":"2018-08-13T19:05:56","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T14:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=75375"},"modified":"2018-08-13T19:06:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T14:06:15","slug":"dananjaya-rises-to-21st-in-odi-rankings-after-splendid-series-against-the-proteas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=75375","title":{"rendered":"Dananjaya rises to 21st in ODI rankings, after splendid series against the Proteas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colombo, August 13 (TNS): In International Cricket Council&#8217;s new One Day International rankings Sri Lanka\u00a0spinner\u00a0Akila Dananjaya\u00a0has jumped around twenty places to reach his career-best 21st in the bowling rankings of the 50 over format.<\/p>\n<p>The improvement in the ranking came after his brilliant bowling performance against\u00a0South Africa\u00a0in the recently concluded five-match\u00a0ODI\u00a0series.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old picked up a six-wicket haul for 29 runs in the final match of the series while his total wicket-count in the series reached to an impressive figure of 14.<\/p>\n<p>Dananjaya&#8217;s team-mate Thisara Perera (up four places to 68th) is another one to move up the rankings for bowlers while captain\u00a0Angelo Mathews\u00a0and wicketkeeper-batsman Niroshan Dickwella have made noteworthy gains among batsmen.<\/p>\n<p>Mathews, the leading scorer in the series with 235 runs and a highest of 97 not out in the last match, has gained two slots to reach 25th position while Dickwella has moved up four places to grab 35th position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colombo, August 13 (TNS): In International Cricket Council&#8217;s new One Day International rankings Sri Lanka\u00a0spinner\u00a0Akila Dananjaya\u00a0has jumped around twenty places to reach his career-best 21st in the bowling rankings of the 50 over format. The improvement in the ranking came after his brilliant bowling performance against\u00a0South Africa\u00a0in the recently concluded five-match\u00a0ODI\u00a0series. The 24-year-old picked up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75379,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75375\/revisions\/75379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}