{"id":739577,"date":"2022-01-07T18:47:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T18:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/07\/look-man-catches-cricket-ball-dropped-from-nearly-400-feet-for-guinness-record\/"},"modified":"2022-01-07T18:47:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T18:47:31","slug":"look-man-catches-cricket-ball-dropped-from-nearly-400-feet-for-guinness-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/07\/look-man-catches-cricket-ball-dropped-from-nearly-400-feet-for-guinness-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Look: Man catches cricket ball dropped from nearly 400 feet for Guinness record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Man-catches-cricket-ball-dropped-from-nearly-400-feet-for-Guinness-record.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Jan. 7 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> A Sri Lankan man living in Australia broke a Guinness World Record when he caught a cricket ball that was dropped by a drone 393 feet and 3 inches over the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Thimothy Shanon Jebaseelan said he first attempted the record for highest catch of a cricket ball in 2019, but he ended the attempt with a broken finger and no broken records.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\">\n<div class=\"ad_tag\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jebaseelan attempted the record a second time about two years later, successfully catching a ball dropped from a height of 393 feet and 3 inches. He broke the record of 374 feet, set by Kristan Baumgartner of Britain in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Breaking a Guinness World Records title is my dream. Ever since I was a kid I have been dreaming of this,&#8221; Jebaseelan told Guinness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 7 (UPI) &#8212; A Sri Lankan man living in Australia broke a Guinness World Record when he caught a cricket ball that was dropped by a drone 393 feet and 3 inches over the ground. Thimothy Shanon Jebaseelan said he first attempted the record for highest catch of a cricket ball in 2019, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":739578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}