{"id":240958,"date":"2025-11-03T07:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T07:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/240958\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T07:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T07:59:09","slug":"marvan-atapattu-calls-for-social-media-ban-for-sri-lanka-cricketers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/240958\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvan Atapattu calls for social media ban for Sri Lanka cricketers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Sri Lanka captain Marvan Atapattu has called for a complete social media ban for national cricketers, arguing that online distractions are affecting players\u2019 focus and professionalism.<\/p>\n<p>Atapattu said cricketers representing the country should devote their full attention to training and performance, suggesting that staying away from social media \u2014 at least for some time \u2014 would help players regain focus and commitment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf players feel they need social media, they should retire from cricket. When you are representing your country, your focus should be only on your performance and preparation\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Atapattu, who led Sri Lanka across all formats and is regarded as one of the country\u2019s most disciplined players. (Newswire)<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Sri Lanka captain Marvan Atapattu has called for a complete social media ban for national cricketers, arguing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-240958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}