{"id":668859,"date":"2026-05-13T19:49:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T19:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/668859\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T19:49:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T19:49:16","slug":"england-vs-new-zealand-second-odi-at-northampton-is-washed-out-without-a-ball-bowled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/668859\/","title":{"rendered":"England vs New Zealand: Second ODI at Northampton is washed out without a ball bowled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The second one-day international between England and New Zealand at Northampton was abandoned without a ball bowled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Play was scheduled to start at 13:00 BST but heavy rain delayed the toss until 15:30. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">New Zealand captain Melie Kerr chose to bowl first but another downpour began shortly before play was set to start at 16:00.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The umpires held a further inspection but play was called off at 16:45. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England won a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/scorecard\/e-229331\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tense opener at Chester-le-Street<\/a> by one wicket and the three-match series concludes at Cardiff on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The series is followed by three T20s, the format in which the White Ferns are defending world champions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The second one-day international between England and New Zealand at Northampton was abandoned without a ball bowled. Play&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-668859","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\/668859","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=668859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}