{"id":35414,"date":"2025-07-31T17:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T17:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/35414\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T17:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T17:16:08","slug":"can-test-cricket-survive-a-sticky-wicket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/35414\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Test cricket survive a sticky wicket?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">FANS OF EVERY sport claim their passion is more than a game, but few argue it has an edifying social role. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/the-economist-reads\/2022\/07\/25\/what-to-read-to-understand-cricket\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cricket?<\/a> It civilises people,\u201d purred Robert Mugabe, then Zimbabwe\u2019s dictator, as he sought to use it to build \u201ca nation of gentlemen\u201d. Since its inception in 1877 Test cricket, the original multi-day format, has been associated with propriety and moral instruction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FANS OF EVERY sport claim their passion is more than a game, but few argue it has an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,2331,588,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-35414","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-culture","12":"tag-sport","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35414","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=35414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}