{"id":724629,"date":"2026-06-09T06:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T06:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/724629\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T06:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T06:54:08","slug":"rain-washes-out-the-3rd-cricket-international-in-the-west-indies-sri-lanka-wins-the-series-1-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/724629\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain washes out the 3rd cricket international in the West Indies. Sri Lanka wins the series 1-0"},"content":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, Jamaica — The third one-day cricket<\/a> international between West Indies and Sri Lanka went the same way as the second<\/a> and was washed out Monday without a ball being bowled. <\/p>\n

Umpires made the decision just after 6 p.m. local time to call off the match because the outfield couldn\u2019t be made ready for play even if the rain abated. <\/p>\n

Sri Lanka won the first match of the series by 41 runs<\/a> for its first ODI win in the Caribbean in 13 years. The two subsequent washouts have given Sri Lanka a 1-0 series victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re very happy to win the series,\u201d Sri Lanka captain Kusal Mendis said. \u201cWe did really well in that one game in all three departments. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere’s not a lot of matches ahead of next year\u2019s World Cup and I’m happy with my first series victory as captain.\u201d<\/p>\n

The series win was also the first for Sri Lanka’s new coach, former South Africa star Gary Kirsten<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t control mother nature,\u201d West Indies captain Shai Hope said. \u201cCredit must be given to the Sri Lankan team for the way they played in the first game.\u201d<\/p>\n

The series continues with three Twenty20 internationals, the first of which will be played at Kingston on Thursday.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP cricket: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/cricket<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KINGSTON, Jamaica — The third one-day cricket international between West Indies and Sri Lanka went the same way…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85,41167],"class_list":["post-724629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-sports-officiating"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724629","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=724629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}