{"id":94232,"date":"2025-12-16T15:50:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T10:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=94232"},"modified":"2025-12-16T16:15:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T11:15:40","slug":"former-sri-lankan-test-cricketer-ds-de-silva-has-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/former-sri-lankan-test-cricketer-ds-de-silva-has-passed-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Sri Lankan test cricketer DS de Silva passed away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COLOMBO: Former Sri Lankan Test cricketer \u00a0leg-spinner and ex-SLC chairman DS de Silva has passed away.<\/p>\n<p>According to<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/setback-for-srilanka-as-two-key-players-miss-out-tri-nation-series\/\"> Sri Lanka<\/a> Cricket, DS de Silva represented Sri Lanka in 12 Tests and 41 One Day Internationals.<br \/>\nHe was a member of the Sri Lankan team that played its first Test in 1982.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, DS de Silva also served as the Chairman of the Interim Administration of Sri Lanka Cricket from 2009 to 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLOMBO: Former Sri Lankan Test cricketer \u00a0leg-spinner and ex-SLC chairman DS de Silva has passed away. According to Sri Lanka Cricket, DS de Silva represented Sri Lanka in 12 Tests and 41 One Day Internationals. He was a member of the Sri Lankan team that played its first Test in 1982. Additionally, DS de Silva [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":94233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[33046,33047],"class_list":["post-94232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-sports","tag-ds-de-silva-has-passed-away","tag-sri-lankan-test-cricketer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94241,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94232\/revisions\/94241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}