{"id":16,"date":"2026-08-27T13:11:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glambydeepanshi.site\/?p=16"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:11:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:11:34","slug":"sonal-dinushas-twin-centuries-deny-india-a-2-0-sweep-in-colombo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glambydeepanshi.site\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"Sonal Dinusha\u2019s twin centuries deny India a 2-0 sweep in Colombo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the middle of the 104th over, Keshara Nuwantha needed medical attention from the physio. India had, by then, bowled 31 overs&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/sports\/cricket\/india-vs-sri-lanka-2nd-test-draw-win-series-1-0-sonal-dinusha-century-10852070\/\" class=\"\">on the fifth morning in Colombo<\/a>, and still couldn\u2019t prise apart the stubborn pairing of Sonal Dinusha and Nuwantha. The clock ticked, but the wickets refused to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It had reached the point where&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/about\/rishabh-pant\/\">Rishabh Pant<\/a>&nbsp;tried swapping the bails, before Dhruv Jurel went a step further and swapped the stumps, perhaps hoping a small alteration might somehow change India\u2019s fortunes. It was a small act, but a telling one. India had become that desperate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the middle of the 104th over, Keshara Nuwantha needed medical attention from the physio. India had, by then, bowled&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glambydeepanshi.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glambydeepanshi.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glambydeepanshi.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glambydeepanshi.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glambydeepanshi.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glambydeepanshi.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18,"href":"https:\/\/glambydeepanshi.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/18"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glambydeepanshi.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glambydeepanshi.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glambydeepanshi.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glambydeepanshi.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}