Australia’s second Women’s Cricket World Cup match, against co-hosts Sri Lanka in Colombo, has been abandoned without a ball being bowled because of heavy rain.<\/p>\n
The entire playing field at the R Premadasa Stadium remained under dark blue covers before umpires called off the game at 5:35 pm local time on Saturday.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
It was a blow for the defending champions Australia, who had won their first match against New Zealand in fine style on Wednesday with an 89-run victory but now only pick up one point for an abandoned match.<\/p>\n
Sri Lanka made a promising start and had India struggling at 6-126 in their first rain-affected game before they went on to lose by 59 runs.<\/p>\n
Alyssa Healy’s reigning champions retaintheir spot at the top of the table on three points.<\/p>\n
But India could go past them if they, as expected, beat arch rivals Pakistan in the next match of the eight-nation tournament at the same Colombo venue on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia’s second Women’s Cricket World Cup match, against co-hosts Sri Lanka in Colombo, has been abandoned without a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-189702","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\/189702","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=189702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}