{"id":3397,"date":"2022-07-01T08:51:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T08:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.topic.lk\/?p=3397"},"modified":"2022-07-01T14:52:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T14:52:42","slug":"mathews-out-of-1st-test-after-testing-covid-19-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/3397\/","title":{"rendered":"Mathews out of 1st Test after testing Covid-19 positive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sri Lanka have been rocked by a mid-game positive COVID-19 case, with Angelo Mathews ruled out of the ongoing first Test against Australia in Galle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oshada Fernando has come into Sri Lanka\u2019s XI in place of Mathews, who would have played a key role in the hosts\u2019 crucial second innings on day three of the series opener.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mathews, Sri Lanka\u2019s most experienced player, returned a positive rapid antigen test on Thursday after feeling unwell. Sri Lanka Cricket said he has since been isolated from other team members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fernando has played 15 Tests, averaging 36 and has one hundred to his name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mathews, who made 39 in Sri Lanka\u2019s first innings, should be available for the second Test beginning next Friday given the country\u2019s isolation requirements are only for five days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka have been rocked by a mid-game positive COVID-19 case, with Angelo Mathews ruled out of the ongoing first Test against Australia in Galle. Oshada Fernando has come into Sri Lanka\u2019s XI in place of Mathews, who would have played a key role in the hosts\u2019 crucial second innings on day three of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3399,"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3397\/revisions\/3399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topic.lk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}