{"id":91011,"date":"2026-02-11T00:35:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T00:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/after-india-players-have-superior-bats-remark-rajapaksa-makes-new-post\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T00:35:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T00:35:58","slug":"after-india-players-have-superior-bats-remark-rajapaksa-makes-new-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/after-india-players-have-superior-bats-remark-rajapaksa-makes-new-post\/","title":{"rendered":"After &#8216;India players have superior bats&#8217; remark, Rajapaksa makes new post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s Bhanuka Rajapaksa clarified his controversial comments on Indian bats, saying his words were misunderstood and meant as praise, not an accusation of bat-tampering. He lauded India\u2019s advanced cricket system and top bat manufacturers, admitting he should have given clearer context. His earlier remarks triggered online debate, but no ICC complaint was filed.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s Bhanuka Rajapaksa clarified his controversial comments on Indian bats, saying his words were misunderstood and meant as praise, not an accusation of bat-tampering. He lauded India\u2019s advanced cricket system and top bat manufacturers, admitting he should have given clearer context. His earlier remarks triggered online debate, but no ICC complaint was filed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":91012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91011"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}