{"id":9705,"date":"2009-06-02T13:06:39","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T13:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/06\/02\/weve-moved-on-from-lahore\/"},"modified":"2009-06-02T13:06:39","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T13:06:39","slug":"weve-moved-on-from-lahore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/02\/weve-moved-on-from-lahore\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019ve moved on from Lahore\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Sri Lanka prepare for return post-Lahore terror attack<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"266\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"180\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/Image\/ArticleImages\/KumarSangakarra_180x232.jpg\"\/>SRI Lankan captain Kumar Sangakkara said his team were looking forward to getting back onto the cricket pitch just months after they were targeted in a terrorist attack in the Pakistan city of Lahore.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Sangakkara was one of seven players who were injured when they were ambushed by terrorists as they made their way to the Gadaffi Stadium on the third day of the second Test against Pakistan in March.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Since the attack the team has not played together &#8211; until now when they will take part in the ICC World Twenty20. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Sangakkara said his teammates were now mentally prepared to return to the game. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cReturning to cricket is the sign of normalcy for us, getting back to our normal lives,\u201d Sangakkara told Cricinfo. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cThe guys have moved on very well from Lahore. It is great to be back playing cricket and hope we can make a challenge in the World Twenty20. The side is really looking forward to doing well.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cLife moves on, cricket goes on. The guys have realised that and they are prepared mentally now.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka prepare for return post-Lahore terror attack SRI Lankan captain Kumar Sangakkara said his team were looking forward to getting back onto the cricket pitch just months after they were targeted in a terrorist attack in the Pakistan city of Lahore. &#13; Sangakkara was one of seven players who were injured when they were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}