{"id":275467,"date":"2025-04-06T13:26:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T13:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/06\/lankans-aggressive-play-in-1996-foreshadowed-t20-cricket-pm-modi\/"},"modified":"2025-04-06T13:26:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T13:26:21","slug":"lankans-aggressive-play-in-1996-foreshadowed-t20-cricket-pm-modi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/06\/lankans-aggressive-play-in-1996-foreshadowed-t20-cricket-pm-modi\/","title":{"rendered":"Lankans&#8217; aggressive play in 1996 foreshadowed T20 cricket: PM Modi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/118783427.cms?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Lankans&#8217; aggressive play in 1996 foreshadowed T20 cricket: PM Modi\" title=\"Lankans&#8217; aggressive play in 1996 foreshadowed T20 cricket: PM Modi\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-brcount=\"14\">Sri Lanka&#8217;s aggressive and innovative style of cricket foreshadowed the advent of T20 cricket, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said, lauding the country&#8217;s World Cup-winning team. During an interaction with the team on Saturday, Modi said India&#8217;s 1983 World Cup win and Sri Lanka&#8217;s 1996 victory played transformative roles in the global cricketing landscape, an official said. <\/p>\n<p><!--\/dynamic_link.cms?msid=107107653&subsecid=1715249553&pos=toppotime:1--> Sri Lanka&#8217;s 1996 World Cup-winning squad included Sanath Jayasuriya, Chaminda Vaas, Aravinda de Silva, Marvan Atapattu, Ravindra Pushpakumara, Upul Chandana, Kumar Dharmasena, and Romesh Kaluwitharana. <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;PM Modi acknowledged that the aggressive and innovative style of Sri Lankan cricket in the 1996 World Cup in a way giving birth to T20 cricket,&#8221; an official said. <\/p>\n<p> During his sojourn to the island nation, Modi recalled India&#8217;s visit to Sri Lanka in 1996 despite a bomb blast, calling it a strong symbol of sportsmanship and enduring friendship. <\/p>\n<p>He said he visited Lanka immediately after the 2019 terror attacks. The spirit of India remains the same, he added. <\/p>\n<div style=\"display:none;\" data-ga-impression=\"Events_widget_$pagename#Impression#url\" class=\"liveEventMain_widget custom_ad\">\n<div class=\"topContain\">\n<div class=\"imgBox\"><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"logoTitle\">Live Events<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/live_events_widget.cms?pagename=articlepotime:1--><br \/> &#8220;The Sri Lankan players requested PM Modi to support the development of a high-quality cricket ground in the northern part of Sri Lanka especially Jaffna,&#8221; the official said.  The cricketers also thanked Modi for India&#8217;s generous assistance during Sri Lanka&#8217;s economic crisis. <\/p>\n<p>Modi also reiterated India&#8217;s commitment to the &#8220;Neighbourhood First&#8221; policy, citing India&#8217;s support to Myanmar during a recent earthquake.<!--\/article_liveblog.cms?msid=105115637&pos=botpotime:72--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/lankans-aggressive-play-in-1996-foreshadowed-t20-cricket-pm-modi\/articleshow\/120038892.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka&#8217;s aggressive and innovative style of cricket foreshadowed the advent of T20 cricket, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said, lauding the country&#8217;s World Cup-winning team. During an interaction with the team on Saturday, Modi said India&#8217;s 1983 World Cup win and Sri Lanka&#8217;s 1996 victory played transformative roles in the global cricketing landscape, an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/118783427.cms","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[602],"tags":[212552,9187,270,212556,212558,212554,212557,118956,1686,212553,1557,149143,11660,70696,1317,212555],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275469,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275467\/revisions\/275469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}