Toss Oman chose to field vs Sri Lanka<\/p>\n
In the T20 World Cup<\/a>‘s first game in Pallekele, Oman<\/a> captain Jatinder Singh<\/a> had no hesitation putting Sri Lanka<\/a> in upon winning the toss.<\/p>\n “Since there’s a bit of moisture we want to play to the conditions,” Jatinder said on the broadcast. “One game [defeat to Zimbabwe<\/a>] doesn’t define us, we want to get our batting right and everything will fall in place.”<\/p>\n There were two changes in the Oman side, with offspin-bowling allrounder Jay Odedra<\/a> and fast-bowling allrounder Mohammad Nadeem<\/a> coming in. Top-order batter Karan Sonavale and left-arm spinner Shakeel Ahmed missed out.<\/p>\n Sri Lanka captain Dasun Shanaka<\/a> said it looked a decent pitch, and that he was happy to bat.<\/p>\n “We expected to score more in the first game against Ireland<\/a>, but the pitch was on the slow side,” he said. “Hopefully this one will be better”.<\/p>\n The big news for Sri Lanka is that Wanindu Hasaranga has been ruled out<\/a> of the tournament with a hamstring injury. Dushan Hemantha<\/a> has come into the XI as a somewhat like-for-like replacement.<\/p>\n Sri Lanka: 1 Pathum Nissanka, 2 Kamil Mishara, 3 Kusal Mendis (wk), 4 Pavan Rathnayake, 5 Kamindu Mendis, 6 Dasun Shanaka (capt), 7 Dunith Wellalage, 8 Dushan Hemantha, 9 Dushmantha Chameera, 10 Maheesh Theekshana, 11 Matheesha Pathirana.<\/p>\n Oman: 1 Jatinder Singh (capt), 2 Aamir Kaleem, 3 Hammad Mirza, 4 Wasim Ali, 5 Mohammad Nadeem, 6 Jiten Ramanandi, 7 Vinayak Shukla (wk), 8 Sufyan Mehmood, 9 Nadeem Khan, 10 Shah Faisal, 11 Jay Odedra<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toss Oman chose to field vs Sri Lanka In the T20 World Cup‘s first game in Pallekele, Oman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-474483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}