{"id":439563,"date":"2026-02-22T12:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T12:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/439563\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T12:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T12:04:12","slug":"espncricinfo-awards-2025-mens-odi-batting-nominees-asalanka-inglis-zadran-ravindra-rohit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/439563\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPNcricinfo Awards 2025 men&#8217;s ODI batting nominees &#8211; Asalanka, Inglis, Zadran, Ravindra, Rohit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/charith-asalanka-784367\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charith Asalanka<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/series\/australia-in-sri-lanka-2024-25-1459900\/sri-lanka-vs-australia-1st-odi-1459908\/full-scorecard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">127 vs Australia<\/a><br \/>first ODI, Colombo<br \/>\nBattling cramps in humid conditions, Asalanka&#8217;s extraordinary rearguard helped turn a low-scoring game Sri Lanka&#8217;s way. Coming in at 30 for 3 in the sixth over &#8211; with Australia&#8217;s makeshift pace attack making the most of some early assistance &#8211; Asalanka saw his side slump to 55 for 5, and later, 135 for 8. That&#8217;s when the Sri Lanka captain, who was on 50 off 73 balls at the time, started capitalising on the tiring bowlers. Asalanka dominated a ninth-wicket stand of 79, to which Eshan Malinga contributed one run. Asalanka finished at better than a run a ball, scoring a shade under 60% of the team&#8217;s total of 214, which proved too much for Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charith Asalanka127 vs Australiafirst ODI, Colombo Battling cramps in humid conditions, Asalanka&#8217;s extraordinary rearguard helped turn a low-scoring&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[132648,1721,36623,49,50,132647,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-439563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-bulletin","9":"tag-cricket","10":"tag-daily","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-package","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439563","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=439563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}