{"id":894188,"date":"2026-09-16T14:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T14:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/894188\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T14:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T14:44:11","slug":"sri-lanka-name-womens-squad-for-asian-games-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/894188\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka name women&#8217;s squad for Asian Games 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vishmi Gunarathne, who impressed with important contributions during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/tournaments\/womens-t20-worldcup-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ICC Women\u2019s T20 World Cup<\/a> and Asia Cup, is among the notable names missing from the squad. Nilakshika Silva, who produced match-winning contributions across the two tournaments, has also not been included.<\/p>\n<p>Chetana Vimukthi, who was recalled to Sri Lanka\u2019s side for the Asia Cup, is another player absent from the Asian Games squad.<\/p>\n<p>There is, however, room for some exciting young talent. Seventeen-year-old Chamudi Praboda, who made an impression during the Asia Cup, has been included, as has 19-year-old Rashmika Sewwandi. Sewwandi\u2019s most recent T20I appearance came against Pakistan in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vishmi Gunarathne, who impressed with important contributions during the ICC Women\u2019s T20 World Cup and Asia Cup, is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":894189,"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-894188","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\/894188","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=894188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/894189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}