{"id":105351,"date":"2017-09-01T17:45:37","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T12:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=105351"},"modified":"2017-09-01T17:45:37","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T12:15:37","slug":"cricket-is-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/cricket-is-gambling\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket is gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cricketer turned politician Arjuna Ranatunga was once remembered in India as the most influential man in Sri Lankan cricket.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And while he was always upfront when it came to being critical of opposition teams and players, it was always with some logic and subtlety.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-105352\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/arjuna-ranatunga-759.jpg\" alt=\"Cricket is gambling\" width=\"759\" height=\"422\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Arjuna, the former Lankan captain has become extremely outspoken, making several sweeping statements.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While talking on what ails cricket in his country at the moment, Ranatunga, in an interview to media, said, \u201cI think the worst part is, to tell you honestly, our administration is very poor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cricket is run by gamblers and cricket has become a gambling game. So you can\u2019t blame the players.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He further added, \u201cI don\u2019t agree with some of the things happening today, but unfortunately we don\u2019t have a single person who has played international cricket in the cricket board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cricketer turned politician Arjuna Ranatunga was once remembered in India as the most influential man in Sri Lankan cricket. And while he was always upfront when it came to being critical of opposition teams and players, it was always with some logic and subtlety. Arjuna, the former Lankan captain has become extremely outspoken, making several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,29609,2],"tags":[53077,53080,53076,19399,510,25173,1354,53079,879,53078],"class_list":["post-105351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-sports-news","category-top-stories","tag-arjuna-ranatunga","tag-cricket-board","tag-cricket-is-gambling","tag-cricketer","tag-india","tag-international-cricket","tag-interview","tag-lankan-captain","tag-politician","tag-sri-lankan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/ranatunga.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}