{"id":189558,"date":"2025-10-04T12:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T12:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/189558\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T12:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T12:25:07","slug":"icc-womens-cricket-world-cup-2025-australia-and-sri-lanka-match-washed-out-in-colombo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/189558\/","title":{"rendered":"ICC Women&#8217;s Cricket World Cup 2025: Australia and Sri Lanka match washed out in Colombo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Women&#8217;s World Cup match between Australia and Sri Lanka was abandoned without a ball being bowled due to persistent rain in Colombo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Defending champions Australia would have been heavy favourites for the match but  they and tournament co-hosts Sri Lanka take a point each following the washout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That point was confirmed when the umpires called the match off at 13:00 BST and is enough to take Australia, who beat New Zealand in their opening match, to the top of the table.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">India have the chance to replace them at the summit on Sunday by beating fierce rivals Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, that game is also taking place in Colombo and the forecast suggests the weather may intervene again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Women&#8217;s World Cup match between Australia and Sri Lanka was abandoned without a ball being bowled due&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-189558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}