{"id":421610,"date":"2026-02-12T10:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T10:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/421610\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T10:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T10:32:12","slug":"dasun-shanaka-breaks-his-own-sri-lankas-fastest-fifty-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/421610\/","title":{"rendered":"Dasun Shanaka breaks his own Sri Lanka&#8217;s fastest fifty record"},"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%2Ffraq\" 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=Dasun%20Shanaka%20breaks%20his%20own%20Sri%20Lanka%27s%20fastest%20fifty%20record&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newswire.lk%2Ffraq\" 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=Dasun%20Shanaka%20breaks%20his%20own%20Sri%20Lanka%27s%20fastest%20fifty%20record%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newswire.lk%2Ffraq\" 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>Dasun Shanaka smashed the fastest T20 International half-century by a Sri Lankan, reaching the milestone in just 19 balls during Sri Lanka\u2019s match against Oman in Pallekele on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Sri Lanka skipper broke his own previous national record of a 20-ball fifty, further cementing his reputation as one of the country\u2019s most explosive white-ball batters. (Newswire)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-222847\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG-20260212-WA0072.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"750\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/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":"Dasun Shanaka smashed the fastest T20 International half-century by a Sri Lankan, reaching the milestone in just 19&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-421610","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\/421610","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=421610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}