{"id":63546,"date":"2019-06-12T11:19:17","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T11:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=63546"},"modified":"2019-06-12T11:19:18","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T11:19:18","slug":"bangladesh-sri-lanka-washout-sets-icc-world-cup-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/bangladesh-sri-lanka-washout-sets-icc-world-cup-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh-Sri Lanka washout sets ICC World Cup record"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Sri Lanka\u2019s World Cup match against Bangladesh was abandoned without a ball being bowled due to rain in Bristol on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The umpires\u2019 decision left tournament organisers with the unwanted record for the most number of abandoned games at a World Cup, surpassing the two each at the 1992 tournament in Australia and New Zealand and the 2003 edition in southern Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was the second successive World Cup match at Bristol that had fallen victim to bad weather, with Sri Lanka\u2019s group game against Pakistan at southwest county Gloucestershire\u2019s headquarters on Friday another no-result washout that did not witness a single delivery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No reserve days have been scheduled for the 10-team round-robin stage, despite the well-known risks of rain during a British summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asked whether there should be reserve days in the group phase, Bangladesh coach Steve Rhodes, a former England wicket-keeper, said: \u201cYes, I would .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI know logistically it would have caused problems. But we can put a man on the moon, so if we have to travel a day later, so be it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only one of three World Cup matches scheduled to take place in Bristol produced any play, champions Australia launching their title defence with a seven-wicket victory over outsiders Afghanistan.<\/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>Sri Lanka\u2019s World Cup match against Bangladesh was abandoned without a ball being bowled due to rain in Bristol on Tuesday. The umpires\u2019 decision left tournament organisers with the unwanted record for the most number of abandoned games at a World Cup, surpassing the two each at the 1992 tournament in Australia and New Zealand [&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":63547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63546","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\/63546","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=63546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63548,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63546\/revisions\/63548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}