{"id":733880,"date":"2026-06-13T11:13:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T11:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/733880\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T11:13:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T11:13:19","slug":"rain-showers-delay-the-start-of-the-first-india-afghanistan-one-day-cricket-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/733880\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain showers delay the start of the first India-Afghanistan one-day cricket match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DHARAMSHALA, India (AP) \u2014 Rain has delayed the toss and the start of the first match of a three-match one-day international series between India and Afghanistan on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first bilateral ODI <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/cricket\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:cricket;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;cricket&quot;}\" class=\"link \">cricket<\/a> series between the countries. The teams have only met at World Cups and Asia Cups in the one-day format, with India winning three of the four matches and the other ending in a tie.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>India comes into the match having lost <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/india-new-zealand-cricket-odi-6ff82e98ceaaac393500ae44f59cc8eb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:three of its past five ODIs;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;three of its past five ODIs&quot;}\" class=\"link \">three of its past five ODIs<\/a> while Afghanistan has won four in a row. Last week, India completed an <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/india-afghanistan-cricket-test-e92056996aa59b47b5478cc3505be46b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:innings and 300-run win;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;innings and 300-run win&quot;}\" class=\"link \">innings and 300-run win<\/a> over Afghanistan in a one-off test inside three days.<\/p>\n<p>The second ODI is scheduled for Wednesday at Lucknow and the third on June 20 in Chennai.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP cricket: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/cricket\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/cricket;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;https&quot;}\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/cricket<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DHARAMSHALA, India (AP) \u2014 Rain has delayed the toss and the start of the first match of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[20813,64,63,740,1209,85],"class_list":["post-733880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-afghanistan","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-india","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733880","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=733880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}