{"id":65136,"date":"2018-10-31T14:39:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T13:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/10\/31\/jos-buttler-feared-the-worst-after-sri-lankan-fielder-hit-on-head-by-ball\/"},"modified":"2018-10-31T14:39:51","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T13:39:51","slug":"jos-buttler-feared-the-worst-after-sri-lankan-fielder-hit-on-head-by-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=65136","title":{"rendered":"Jos Buttler \u2018feared the worst\u2019 after Sri Lankan fielder hit on head by ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Pathum Nissanka hospitalised after being hit on helmet by ball\u2022 Sri Lanka Board XI 392-9 dec: England 365-7. Match drawnThese contests \u2013 to use a euphemism for the cricket on show at the Nondescripts ground \u2013 are always messy, disjointed affairs and that was most certainly the case on Wednesday. With each side playing a minimum of 14 players there is no meaningful outcome to a match that is denied any status. So Joe Root did not hit his 24th first-class century here even though he effortlessly reached three figures.Just before tea the tepid nature of the cricket was utterly overshadowed by concern for the 20-year-old Pathum Nissanka, a young batsman from Galle. Nissanka was fielding at forward short leg when Jos Buttler pulled a long hop from off-spinner, Nishan Peiris. From the meat of the bat the ball thudded into the helmet of Nissanka, who fell to the ground. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2018\/oct\/31\/jos-buttler-england-sri-lanka-hospital-fielder\" target=\"_blank\">Jos Buttler \u2018feared the worst\u2019 after Sri Lankan fielder hit on head by ball<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Pathum Nissanka hospitalised after being hit on helmet by ball\u2022 Sri Lanka Board XI 392-9 dec: England 365-7. Match drawnThese contests \u2013 to use a euphemism for the cricket on show at the Nondescripts ground \u2013 are always messy, disjointed affairs and that was most certainly the case on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}