{"id":131013,"date":"2025-09-11T23:50:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T23:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/131013\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T23:50:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T23:50:14","slug":"county-championship-hampshire-handed-fine-and-points-deduction-for-substandard-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/131013\/","title":{"rendered":"County Championship: Hampshire handed fine and points deduction for ‘substandard pitch’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hampshire have been given an eight-point deduction in the County Championship and fined \u00a35,000 for a “substandard pitch” during their home match against Sussex in May.<\/p>\n

The independent cricket discipline panel (CDP) ruled there was no intent on Hampshire’s part to gain any unfair advantage from the pitch in a match they lost by nine wickets.<\/a><\/p>\n

But the club had not taken all reasonable steps to produce a pitch of an appropriate standard, an allegation which Hampshire denied.<\/p>\n

The CDP say that following the match, the referee completed a pitch report rating the pitch as “below average” in respect of the unevenness of the bounce and assessment of turn., external<\/a><\/p>\n

The deduction moves Hampshire from fifth to eighth position in the County Championship table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hampshire have been given an eight-point deduction in the County Championship and fined \u00a35,000 for a “substandard pitch”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-131013","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\/131013","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=131013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}