{"id":730361,"date":"2026-01-30T07:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T07:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/730361\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T07:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T07:44:10","slug":"sri-lanka-buoyed-by-growth-at-u19wc-as-they-await-semis-fate-icc-under-19-cricket-world-cup-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/730361\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka buoyed by growth at U19WC as they await semis fate | ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spin clearly worked for Sri Lanka, who played this game at a new location. After spending the first four-game stint of their campaign in the Namibian capital Windhoek, this was their first appearance at Zimbabwe&#8217;s Bulawayo ground. Dinsara&#8217;s side could feel the difference.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Namibian wickets are really good for fast bowlers, (while) these (Zimbabwe) wickets are a little bit slow,&#8221; he continued.<\/p>\n<p>Whether this is the end of the run at the World Cup for Sri Lanka or not, Dinsara is proud of the group&#8217;s growth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bowling, batting, fielding, all sides are good and I think it&#8217;s improved (a lot throughout the tournament).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All eyes now on Afghanistan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/tournaments\/u19-cricket-worldcup-2026\/matches\/267870\/afghanistan-under-19-vs-sri-lanka-under-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a side they beat on Tuesday<\/a>, and their contest with Ireland to determine who will join Australia out of Group 1 in the final four knockout stage of the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spin clearly worked for Sri Lanka, who played this game at a new location. After spending the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,145385,56086,210110,145395,210105,145407,145406,2192,210106,145405,210102,210114,145389,210104,30566,79,210109,210101,210108,16,210111,210113,210107,210112,210100,15,210103],"class_list":{"0":"post-730361","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-cricket-headlines-today","10":"tag-cricket-live-score","11":"tag-cricket-match-live-score","12":"tag-cricket-scorecard-live","13":"tag-cricket-world-cup-2026","14":"tag-cricket-world-cup-live-score","15":"tag-cricket-world-cup-news","16":"tag-icc","17":"tag-icc-cricket-news","18":"tag-icc-cricket-updates","19":"tag-icc-under-19-world-cup","20":"tag-icc-youth-tournaments","21":"tag-international-cricket-news","22":"tag-junior-cricket","23":"tag-latest-cricket-news","24":"tag-sports","25":"tag-today-cricket-match-score","26":"tag-u19-cricket-world-cup-2026","27":"tag-u19-live-score-today","28":"tag-uk","29":"tag-under-19-cricket-fixtures","30":"tag-under-19-cricket-highlights","31":"tag-under-19-cricket-live-score","32":"tag-under-19-cricket-results","33":"tag-under-19-cricket-world-cup","34":"tag-united-kingdom","35":"tag-youth-cricket"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}