{"id":19103,"date":"2025-08-29T20:47:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T20:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/cricket-world-cup-league-2-namibia-v-scotland-abandoned-despite-fire-on-pitch\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T20:47:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T20:47:43","slug":"cricket-world-cup-league-2-namibia-v-scotland-abandoned-despite-fire-on-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/cricket-world-cup-league-2-namibia-v-scotland-abandoned-despite-fire-on-pitch\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket World Cup League 2: Namibia v Scotland abandoned despite fire on pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Scotland&#8217;s one-day international against Namibia was abandoned without a ball being bowled, despite some unusual techniques from the local groundstaff.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The toss in King City in Ontario, Canada, was delayed because of rain and although one particular damp patch was deliberately set on fire, the match was called off after multiple pitch inspections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scotland face hosts Canada on Monday before another fixture against Namibia on 4 September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This leg of Cricket World Cup League 2 began on Wednesday as Namibia beat Canada by five wickets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Scots stay third in the overall standings with 11 wins from their 21 matches, behind the USA and the Netherlands, while Canada and Namibia are fifth and sixth, respectively.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c5ylnk9wee2o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scotland&#8217;s one-day international against Namibia was abandoned without a ball being bowled, despite some unusual techniques from the local groundstaff. The toss in King City in Ontario, Canada, was delayed because of rain and although one particular damp patch was deliberately set on fire, the match was called off after multiple pitch inspections. Scotland face [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19105,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19103\/revisions\/19105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}