{"id":19157,"date":"2013-03-27T12:49:48","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T16:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=19157"},"modified":"2013-03-27T12:49:48","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T16:49:48","slug":"captain-coolarjuna-ranatunga-says-sri-lankan-cricketers-must-pull-out-of-ipl-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=19157","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Captain Cool&#8221;Arjuna Ranatunga says Sri Lankan Cricketers Must Pull Out of IPL Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\nPRESS TRUST OF INDIA-<\/strong>Sri Lanka&#8217;s former captain Arjun Ranatunga on Wednesday slammed IPL Governing Council\u2019s decision to withdraw Sri Lankan cricketers from Chennai matches of the tournament and asked the players to opt out of the entire high-profile event beginning from April 3. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230; As far as cricketers are concerned I think if they can\u2019t play in South India (Chennai) they should not play in other part either. I personally feel if players are not welcomed in one part of India they should not be part of any IPL,\u201d Ranatunga said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe excuse that the South Indian politician gave was war crimes and I am sure the players should take that into consideration and think of the country and pull out from the entire IPL,\u201d he told a TV news channel. <\/p>\n<p>Ranatunga termed the decision a political gimmick and said \u201cI think what IPL should have done was pulled out all the matches from South India if they are so keen on Sri Lankan players participation.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, bowing to intense political pressure, the IPL Governing Council, withdrew top Sri Lankan players from the Chennai matches of the high-profile IPL after Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa refused to host them in view of the prevailing anti-Sinhalese sentiments in the State. <\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton19157\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D19157&amp;text=%26%238220%3BCaptain%20Cool%26%238221%3BArjuna%20Ranatunga%20says%20Sri%20Lankan%20Cricketers%20Must%20Pull%20Out%20of%20IPL%20Tournament&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRESS TRUST OF INDIA-Sri Lanka&#8217;s former captain Arjun Ranatunga on Wednesday slammed IPL Governing Council\u2019s decision to withdraw Sri Lankan cricketers from Chennai matches of the tournament and asked the players to opt out of the entire high-profile event beginning from April 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19158,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19157\/revisions\/19158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}