{"id":119605,"date":"2025-09-06T23:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T23:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/119605\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T23:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T23:22:07","slug":"cricket-world-cup-league-2-scotland-frustrated-again-as-canada-match-abandoned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/119605\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket World Cup League 2: Scotland frustrated again as Canada match abandoned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scotland&#8217;s one-day international against hosts Canada was abandoned without a ball being bowled, because of softness on one particular area of the pitch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The toss was delayed at King City in Ontario after concerns were raised over the damp patch. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite minimal rain in the hours and days preceding the match, the match was called off after six separate pitch inspections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is the second Scotland fixture to fall victim to conditions in King City during this leg of World Cup League 2, following their game against Namibia on 29 August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Coach Doug Watson&#8217;s side return to Scotland top of the standings despite frustrations over the pitch conditions in Ontario.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They have won 13 of their 24 matches, with seven defeats and four no-results. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scotland&#8217;s one-day international against hosts Canada was abandoned without a ball being bowled, because of softness on one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-119605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}