{"id":398341,"date":"2026-01-30T07:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T07:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/398341\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T07:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T07:45:08","slug":"sri-lanka-buoyed-by-growth-at-u19wc-as-they-await-semis-fate-icc-under-19-cricket-world-cup-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/398341\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka buoyed by growth at U19WC as they await semis fate | ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spin clearly worked for Sri Lanka, who played this game at a new location. After spending the first four-game stint of their campaign in the Namibian capital Windhoek, this was their first appearance at Zimbabwe’s Bulawayo ground. Dinsara’s side could feel the difference.<\/p>\n

“The Namibian wickets are really good for fast bowlers, (while) these (Zimbabwe) wickets are a little bit slow,” he continued.<\/p>\n

Whether this is the end of the run at the World Cup for Sri Lanka or not, Dinsara is proud of the group’s growth.<\/p>\n

“Bowling, batting, fielding, all sides are good and I think it’s improved (a lot throughout the tournament).”<\/p>\n

All eyes now on Afghanistan, a side they beat on Tuesday<\/a>, and their contest with Ireland to determine who will join Australia out of Group 1 in the final four knockout stage of the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spin clearly worked for Sri Lanka, who played this game at a new location. After spending the first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,67811,67817,127089,67822,127085,67834,67833,6518,123497,67832,127082,127093,67815,127084,67810,101,127088,127081,127087,56,127090,127092,127086,127091,127080,54,55,127083],"class_list":["post-398341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-headlines-today","tag-cricket-live-score","tag-cricket-match-live-score","tag-cricket-scorecard-live","tag-cricket-world-cup-2026","tag-cricket-world-cup-live-score","tag-cricket-world-cup-news","tag-icc","tag-icc-cricket-news","tag-icc-cricket-updates","tag-icc-under-19-world-cup","tag-icc-youth-tournaments","tag-international-cricket-news","tag-junior-cricket","tag-latest-cricket-news","tag-sports","tag-today-cricket-match-score","tag-u19-cricket-world-cup-2026","tag-u19-live-score-today","tag-uk","tag-under-19-cricket-fixtures","tag-under-19-cricket-highlights","tag-under-19-cricket-live-score","tag-under-19-cricket-results","tag-under-19-cricket-world-cup","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-youth-cricket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398341","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=398341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}