{"id":595416,"date":"2026-04-09T10:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T10:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/595416\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T10:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T10:08:10","slug":"muthumudalige-pushpakumara-appointed-coach-of-china-cricket-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/595416\/","title":{"rendered":"Muthumudalige Pushpakumara appointed Coach of China cricket team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"Facebook\" class=\"heateor_sss_facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newswire.lk%2F9iq9\" title=\"Facebook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:32px!important;box-shadow:none;display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle\"><\/a><a aria-label=\"Twitter\" class=\"heateor_sss_button_twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Muthumudalige%20Pushpakumara%20appointed%20Coach%20of%20China%20cricket%20team&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newswire.lk%2F9iq9\" title=\"Twitter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:32px!important;box-shadow:none;display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle\"><\/a><a aria-label=\"Whatsapp\" class=\"heateor_sss_whatsapp\" href=\"https:\/\/api.whatsapp.com\/send?text=Muthumudalige%20Pushpakumara%20appointed%20Coach%20of%20China%20cricket%20team%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newswire.lk%2F9iq9\" title=\"Whatsapp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:32px!important;box-shadow:none;display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newswire.lk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/newswire-icon.jpg\" style=\"width:108px; height:20px; margin-top:10px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-231159\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Muthumudalige-Pushpakumara-China-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1707\" height=\"1280\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Former Sri Lankan cricketer and coach Muthumudalige Pushpakumara has assumed the role of coach of the China National Cricket Team.<\/p>\n<p>Sharing photographs on social media, he said, \u2018Honoured to step onto the field with the China National Cricket Team for the first time.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was seen engaging in discussions with officials and the team at Zhejiang University of Science and Technology in Hangzhou, China. (Newswire)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-231160\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Muthumudalige-Pushpakumara-China-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1707\" height=\"1280\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Sri Lankan cricketer and coach Muthumudalige Pushpakumara has assumed the role of coach of the China National&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-595416","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\/595416","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=595416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}