{"id":4955,"date":"2024-09-23T07:51:22","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T07:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/one-day-cup-final-somerset-v-glamorgan-abandoned-because-of-rain\/"},"modified":"2024-09-23T07:51:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T07:51:22","slug":"one-day-cup-final-somerset-v-glamorgan-abandoned-because-of-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/one-day-cup-final-somerset-v-glamorgan-abandoned-because-of-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"One-Day Cup final: Somerset v Glamorgan abandoned because of rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Glamorgan and Somerset were forced to sit and watch the rain as the scheduled date for the One-Day Cup final was washed out, with no play at Trent Bridge.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A reserve day has been allocated for Monday, 23 September, but the forecast remains poor with more heavy rain likely to affect the Midlands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If the teams cannot play at least a 20-over match, the trophy is due to be shared between the clubs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Umpires David Millns and Rob White made the inevitable call at 14:30 BST as the rain intensified and pools of water formed on the outfield, with supporters from both counties left frustrated in the stands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The two sides are both hoping that the 50-over competition would make up for recent disappointments, with Somerset beaten in the T20 Blast final by local rivals Gloucestershire, and Surrey clinching the County Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Glamorgan have slumped to seventh in Division Two of the Championship, increasing the emphasis on repeating their trophy win of 2021 in the 50 overs format.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A complete abandonment of the match would add to the controversy among county supporters over the scheduling of the final in late September, with a similar date already inked in for 2025.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c39lv0949yko\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glamorgan and Somerset were forced to sit and watch the rain as the scheduled date for the One-Day Cup final was washed out, with no play at Trent Bridge. A reserve day has been allocated for Monday, 23 September, but the forecast remains poor with more heavy rain likely to affect the Midlands. If the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4955","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\/4955","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=4955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4957,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4955\/revisions\/4957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}