{"id":16965,"date":"2018-01-03T11:59:25","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T11:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=16965"},"modified":"2018-01-03T11:59:25","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T11:59:25","slug":"icc-rates-mcg-pitch-as-poor-after-drawn-ashes-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/icc-rates-mcg-pitch-as-poor-after-drawn-ashes-test\/","title":{"rendered":"ICC rates MCG pitch as \u2018poor\u2019 after drawn Ashes Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) pitch for the fourth Ashes Test has been rated &#8220;poor&#8221; by the International Cricket Council after last week&#8217;s drawn clash between hosts Australia and England saw only 24 wickets fall over five days.<\/p>\n<p>Match Referee Ranjan Madugalle submitted his report to the ICC expressing the concerns of the match officials over the performance of the pitch which saw Australia scoring 327 and 263 for four declared, and England scoring 491 in their only innings. This report has been forwarded to Cricket Australia, who now have 14 days to provide their response.<\/p>\n<p>The MCG Test was the last Test to be rated under the current ICC Pitch and Outfield Monitoring Process, with a revised process coming into effect in men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s international cricket from Thursday, following the conclusion of the New Zealand versus Windies T20 series which ends at Mount Maunganui on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) pitch for the fourth Ashes Test has been rated &#8220;poor&#8221; by the International Cricket Council after last week&#8217;s drawn clash between hosts Australia and England saw only 24 wickets fall over five days. Match Referee Ranjan Madugalle submitted his report to the ICC expressing the concerns of the match officials [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16967,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16965\/revisions\/16967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}