{"id":872528,"date":"2026-08-29T09:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T09:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/872528\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T09:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T09:54:11","slug":"england-v-pakistan-second-mens-cricket-test-day-three-start-delayed-live-england-v-pakistan-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/872528\/","title":{"rendered":"England v Pakistan: second men\u2019s cricket Test, day three start delayed \u2013 live | England v Pakistan 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Key events<\/p>\n<p>Preamble<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787997251_617_James_Wallace.png\" alt=\"James Wallace\" class=\"dcr-wso613\"\/>James Wallace<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Why does it always rain on me? Is it because England have Pakistan 81-3?<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">I\u2019m afraid it is going to be a severely rain affected day three at Lord\u2019s and the forecast is particularly grim, Rowan Atkinson\u2019s Blackadder might describe it as wetter than a platypus at a private prep school. Something like that anyway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">We\u2019ve had news from on high (the ECB bods rather than God, though it would be useful to get a steer from the biggun) that the start of play is \u2018Officially Delayed\u2019. Well, indeed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The covers are on and will be for the foreseeable, any updates I\u2019ll bring to you toot suite. Until then we\u2019ll just have to while away the hours in trusty OBO rain delay fashion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:?subject=England v Pakistan: second men\u2019s cricket Test, day three start delayed \u2013 live&amp;body=https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2026\/aug\/29\/england-v-pakistan-second-mens-cricket-test-day-three-live?CMP=share_btn_url&amp;page=with%3Ablock-6a8ee0888f08650183b5887d#block-6a8ee0888f08650183b5887d\" type=\"button\" class=\"dcr-10ju04u\">Share<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Key events PreambleJames Wallace Why does it always rain on me? Is it because England have Pakistan 81-3?&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-872528","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\/872528","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=872528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}