{"id":301543,"date":"2026-02-25T14:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T14:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/301543\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T14:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T14:03:07","slug":"live-sri-lanka-strike-after-brisk-start-by-new-zealand-icc-mens-t20-world-cup-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/301543\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE: Sri Lanka strike after brisk start by New Zealand | ICC Men&#8217;s T20 World Cup, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka v New Zealand<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/tournaments\/mens-t20-world-cup-2026\/matches\/268117\/sri-lanka-vs-new-zealand\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Scorecard<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka captain Dasun Shanaka won the toss and elected to field first against New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand: Finn Allen, Tim Seifert (wk), Rachin Ravindra, Glenn Phillips, Mark Chapman, Daryl Mitchell, Mitchell Santner (c), Cole McConchie, Matt Henry, Ish Sodhi, Lockie Ferguson<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka: Pathum Nissanka, Kusal Mendis (wk), Charith Asalanka, Pavan Rathnayake, Kamindu Mendis, Dasun Shanaka (c), Dunith Wellalage, Dushan Hemantha, Dushmantha Chameera, Maheesh Theekshana, Dilshan Madushanka<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka v New Zealand Scorecard Sri Lanka captain Dasun Shanaka won the toss and elected to field&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[41840,41838,41836,41855,122208,41860,41841,41835,41859,122206,41842,41837,122211,111,43,139,69,122207,122209,41839,122210],"class_list":["post-301543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-cricket-breaking-news","tag-cricket-headlines-today","tag-cricket-news","tag-cricket-series-updates","tag-cricket-world-cup-headlines","tag-cricket-world-cup-news","tag-cricket-world-news","tag-icc","tag-icc-cricket-updates","tag-icc-mens-t20-world-cup-news","tag-international-cricket-news","tag-latest-cricket-news","tag-latest-icc-announcements","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-t20-world-cup-news-updates","tag-today-cricket-match-news","tag-today-cricket-news-update","tag-world-cup-cricket-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}