{"id":66743,"date":"2019-07-26T11:44:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T11:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=66743"},"modified":"2019-07-26T11:44:19","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T11:44:19","slug":"england-collapse-sets-up-ireland-test-thriller-at-lords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/england-collapse-sets-up-ireland-test-thriller-at-lords\/","title":{"rendered":"England collapse sets up Ireland Test thriller at Lord&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ireland eyes historic win against England in one off Test match at Lords; England leads by 181 runs after their 2nd innings with just 1 wicket remaining at the end of day 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ireland have the chance to pull off one of the biggest upsets in Test history after another England batting collapse on Thursday set the scene for a thrilling finish at Lord&#8217;s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When lightning flashes and rain cut short the second day&#8217;s play at 6:10 pm local time in a match scheduled for four days rather than the usual five for a Test, England were 303-9 in their second innings, a lead of 181 runs. That represented a colossal improvement on their humiliating first-innings 85 all out but once again their batsmen struggled ahead of next week&#8217;s first Ashes Test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>England had been well-placed at 171-1 second time around, a score built on a second-wicket stand of 145 between nightwatchman Jack Leach, who made 92, and Test debutant Jason Roy made 72.<\/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>Ireland eyes historic win against England in one off Test match at Lords; England leads by 181 runs after their 2nd innings with just 1 wicket remaining at the end of day 2. Ireland have the chance to pull off one of the biggest upsets in Test history after another England batting collapse on Thursday [&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":66744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66743","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\/66743","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=66743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66745,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66743\/revisions\/66745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}