{"id":749133,"date":"2026-08-25T10:22:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T10:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/749133\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T10:22:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T10:22:17","slug":"jurel-smashes-hundred-as-india-take-control-of-colombo-test-icc-world-test-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/749133\/","title":{"rendered":"Jurel smashes hundred as India take control of Colombo Test | ICC World Test Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jurel credited teammate Rishabh Pant for his guidance while at the crease, with the pair putting on a century partnership early on the second day to help India take control of the match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all know Pant is such a terrific player and what he has done for India in Australia and England. So, whenever he is in, I only seek his advice, because he has so much experience. So, I always ask him for advice as, what I should do in a particular situation,&#8221; Jurel said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you can see, Test cricket has different ways of playing, and it makes the game beautiful. When you play with Pant, it\u2019s a very terrific experience. I can\u2019t play like him, the way he has been playing since childhood. My game plan is to see which bowler should I take down, which spell should I play, and I always ask Pant because he is a wicketkeeper, I am a wicketkeeper, and we play in the middle order, so it\u2019s a very good experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pacer Asitha Fernando (4\/106) was the pick of the Sri Lanka bowlers with four wickets, while Prabath Jayasuriya (2\/132) and Keshara Nuwantha (2\/154) each collected two.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am pleased with my effort and I must mention Lahiru and got a big support from him,&#8221; Fernando said at stumps.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I would have been happier had we got them out for lesser.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jurel credited teammate Rishabh Pant for his guidance while at the crease, with the pair putting on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,67813,67811,67817,67827,67823,67826,67824,16326,67825,67822,67828,67834,67833,67814,6518,67832,67816,67815,67810,67820,67821,67830,101,67829,67831,67819,67812,67818,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-749133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-breaking-news","tag-cricket-headlines-today","tag-cricket-live-score","tag-cricket-match-highlights-today","tag-cricket-match-live-streaming-score","tag-cricket-match-result-today","tag-cricket-match-today-live","tag-cricket-news","tag-cricket-results-today","tag-cricket-scorecard-live","tag-cricket-series-updates","tag-cricket-world-cup-live-score","tag-cricket-world-cup-news","tag-cricket-world-news","tag-icc","tag-icc-cricket-updates","tag-international-cricket-live-score","tag-international-cricket-news","tag-latest-cricket-news","tag-latest-cricket-scores","tag-live-cricket-match-update","tag-odi-cricket-live-score","tag-sports","tag-t20-cricket-live-score","tag-test-cricket-live-score","tag-today-cricket-live-score","tag-today-cricket-news-update","tag-todays-cricket-match-score","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749133","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=749133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}