{"id":169,"date":"2026-06-15T15:41:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T20:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgsnipersports.com\/?p=169"},"modified":"2026-06-15T16:22:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T21:22:33","slug":"victory-for-west-indies-over-sri-lanka-in-t20i-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lgsnipersports.com\/?p=169","title":{"rendered":"Victory for West Indies over Sri Lanka in T20I series"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kingston  |  Jamaica<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a nail-biting finish last night, West Indies defeated Sri Lanka by five wickets to claim their T20 International series 2-1 at Sabina Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Man-of-the-match Shamar Joseph who bowled with severe pace and accuracy, ended with impressive figures of five wickets for 33, to restrict the Sri Lankans to 169 all out. Sri Lanka accumulated their runs from the efforts of Dunith Wellalage who scored 43 from 28 deliveries, Kamil Mishara 28 from 23 balls, and Pathum Nissanka 26.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">West Indies chasing 170 for victory, was led by Sherfane Rutherford who smashed an unbeaten 54 off 40 deliveries, and he was aided by Rovman Powell 33. However, with the game on a knife&#8217;s edge , Jason Holder&#8217;s whirlwind innings of 21 off five deliveries &#8211; with three sixes- ensured that the spectators were fully entertained and that West Indies were victorious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" data-id=\"171\" src=\"https:\/\/lgsnipersports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DSC_6340-Edit-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lgsnipersports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DSC_6340-Edit-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lgsnipersports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DSC_6340-Edit-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lgsnipersports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DSC_6340-Edit-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lgsnipersports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DSC_6340-Edit-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lgsnipersports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DSC_6340-Edit-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">West Indies pacers Shamar Joseph and Jason Holder in conversation during the second T20I, WI vs Sri Lanka, June 13, 2026 at Sabina Park<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>LGS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kingston | Jamaica In a nail-biting finish last night, West Indies defeated Sri Lanka by five wickets to claim their T20 International series 2-1 at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[27,48,32,33,49,50,35,47,34,28],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-jason-holder","tag-lgs","tag-lgsnipersports","tag-pathum-nissanka","tag-sabina","tag-sabina-park","tag-sherfane-rutherford","tag-srilanka","tag-west-indies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lgsnipersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lgsnipersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lgsnipersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lgsnipersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lgsnipersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lgsnipersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177,"href":"https:\/\/lgsnipersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lgsnipersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lgsnipersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lgsnipersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lgsnipersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}