{"id":871450,"date":"2026-08-28T12:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T12:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/871450\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T12:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T12:42:11","slug":"gill-underlines-big-positives-for-india-from-sri-lanka-series-icc-world-test-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/871450\/","title":{"rendered":"Gill underlines big positives for India from Sri Lanka series | ICC World Test Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India were in a position of strength in Colombo at the end of day two and also enforced a follow-on on the hosts but Sri Lanka displayed great application and thwarted India&#8217;s attempts to force a result.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gill gave credit to their opponents for their display and felt it was an important lesson for his team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot of learnings in this series. I think we played decently well,&#8221; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously, not the result that we wanted in this match. After day two, we hoped that it&#8217;s going to be a win for us and then Sri Lanka batting that the way that they did for these three days, sometimes you&#8217;ve got to learn from the opposition as well and credit to them for the way that they played,&#8221; he signed off.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/news\/state-of-play-as-the-icc-world-test-championship-2025-27-resumes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">India have work to do<\/a> to make the final of the ICC World Test Championship and their next Test assignment is in New Zealand in November. With just seven Tests to play in this cycle and a lot of ground to make up, India&#8217;s margin for error is very little.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India were in a position of strength in Colombo at the end of day two and also enforced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":871451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,95832,95830,95836,95846,95842,95845,95843,1950,95844,95841,95847,95853,95852,95833,7301,95851,95835,95834,90626,95839,95840,95849,85,95848,95850,95838,95831,95837],"class_list":["post-871450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-breaking-news","tag-cricket-headlines-today","tag-cricket-live-score","tag-cricket-match-highlights-today","tag-cricket-match-live-streaming-score","tag-cricket-match-result-today","tag-cricket-match-today-live","tag-cricket-news","tag-cricket-results-today","tag-cricket-scorecard-live","tag-cricket-series-updates","tag-cricket-world-cup-live-score","tag-cricket-world-cup-news","tag-cricket-world-news","tag-icc","tag-icc-cricket-updates","tag-international-cricket-live-score","tag-international-cricket-news","tag-latest-cricket-news","tag-latest-cricket-scores","tag-live-cricket-match-update","tag-odi-cricket-live-score","tag-sports","tag-t20-cricket-live-score","tag-test-cricket-live-score","tag-today-cricket-live-score","tag-today-cricket-news-update","tag-todays-cricket-match-score"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871450","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=871450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/871451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}