{"id":26360,"date":"2016-03-18T12:13:11","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T12:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=26360"},"modified":"2016-03-18T12:13:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T12:13:11","slug":"icc-world-t20-injured-malinga-returns-to-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=26360","title":{"rendered":"ICC World T20: Injured Malinga returns to Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-26359\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Lasith-Malinga-Sri-Lanka-Cricketer.jpg\" alt=\"Lasith Malinga Sri Lanka Cricketer\" width=\"260\" height=\"160\" style=\"margin: 4px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Lasith-Malinga-Sri-Lanka-Cricketer.jpg 260w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Lasith-Malinga-Sri-Lanka-Cricketer-150x92.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>Sri Lankan Fast Bowler Lasith Malinga, who injured his knee in ongoing ICC World Twenty20, will be returning to Sri Lanka today. Sri Lanka Team management on tour have observed that Malinga who&rsquo;s niggling injury has been flaring up would be better off resting it, and have recommended he return to Colombo.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the practice T20 matches for the remaining players from the WT20 pool will get underway at the R. Premadasa International Stadium this evening, and the Selectors are expected to pick a suitable replacement for Malinga, to join the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-26359\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Lasith-Malinga-Sri-Lanka-Cricketer.jpg\" alt=\"Lasith Malinga Sri Lanka Cricketer\" width=\"260\" height=\"160\" style=\"margin: 4px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Lasith-Malinga-Sri-Lanka-Cricketer.jpg 260w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Lasith-Malinga-Sri-Lanka-Cricketer-150x92.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>Sri Lankan Fast Bowler Lasith Malinga, who injured his knee in ongoing ICC World Twenty20, will be returning to Sri Lanka today. Sri Lanka Team management on tour have observed that Malinga who&rsquo;s niggling injury has been flaring up would be better off resting it, and have recommended he return to Colombo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[4744,15618,12040,669,15647],"class_list":["post-26360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world-cricket-news","tag-cricket-news","tag-cricket-t20","tag-icc-world-twenty20-2016","tag-lasith-malinga","tag-sri-lanka-team"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>ICC World T20: Injured Malinga returns to Sri Lanka - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=26360\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ICC World T20: Injured Malinga returns to Sri Lanka - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sri Lankan Fast Bowler Lasith Malinga, who injured his knee in ongoing ICC World Twenty20, will be returning to Sri Lanka today. 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