{"id":395471,"date":"2026-01-28T18:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T18:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/395471\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T18:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T18:50:12","slug":"sri-lanka-t20-squad-announced-two-key-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/395471\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka T20 Squad Announced: Two key changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"Facebook\" class=\"heateor_sss_facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newswire.lk%2F6cj1\" title=\"Facebook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:32px!important;box-shadow:none;display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle\"><\/a><a aria-label=\"Twitter\" class=\"heateor_sss_button_twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Sri%20Lanka%20T20%20Squad%20Announced%3A%20Two%20key%20changes&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newswire.lk%2F6cj1\" title=\"Twitter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:32px!important;box-shadow:none;display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle\"><\/a><a aria-label=\"Whatsapp\" class=\"heateor_sss_whatsapp\" href=\"https:\/\/api.whatsapp.com\/send?text=Sri%20Lanka%20T20%20Squad%20Announced%3A%20Two%20key%20changes%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newswire.lk%2F6cj1\" title=\"Whatsapp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:32px!important;box-shadow:none;display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newswire.lk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/newswire-icon.jpg\" style=\"width:108px; height:20px; margin-top:10px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-221002\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG-20260127-WA0231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Sri Lanka Cricket Selection Panel has selected the following 16-member squad to play in\u00a0the upcoming three-match T20I series vs. England.<\/p>\n<p>The matches will be played on the 30th of January, 1st, and 3rd of February at the Pallekele<\/p>\n<p>International Cricket Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The squad<\/p>\n<p>1. Dasun Shanaka \u2013 Captain<\/p>\n<p>2. Pathum Nissanka3. Kamil Mishara4. Kusal Mendis<\/p>\n<p>5. Kusal Janith Perera<\/p>\n<p>6. Dhananjaya De Silva<\/p>\n<p>7. Charith Asalanka<\/p>\n<p>8. Janith Liyanage<\/p>\n<p>9. Pavan Rathnayake<\/p>\n<p>10. Wanindu Hasaranga<\/p>\n<p>11. Dunith Wellalage<\/p>\n<p>12. Maheesh Theekshana<\/p>\n<p>13. Dushmantha Chameera<\/p>\n<p>14. Pramod Madushan<\/p>\n<p>15. Matheesha Pathirana<\/p>\n<p>16. Eshan Malinga<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sri Lanka Cricket Selection Panel has selected the following 16-member squad to play in\u00a0the upcoming three-match T20I&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-395471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395471","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=395471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}