{"id":140024,"date":"2025-09-16T00:38:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T00:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/140024\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T00:38:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T00:38:06","slug":"match-report-sussex-v-yorkshire-men-rothesay-cc-day-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/140024\/","title":{"rendered":"Match Report: Sussex v Yorkshire Men, Rothesay CC, Day One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27218\" class=\"wp-image-27218\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_4505-300x200.jpg.webp.webp\" alt=\"Hove Day 1 \" width=\"771\" height=\"514\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-27218\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture by John Heald. The scene at The 1st Central County Ground, Hove today.<\/p>\n<p>The opening day of Yorkshire\u2019s penultimate round men\u2019s Rothesay County Championship clash with Sussex was abandoned without a ball bowled at The 1st Central County Ground, Hove today.<\/p>\n<p>Overnight and some morning rain meant a wet outfield, and even though the sun shone for most of the day on the South Coast \u2013 aside from the odd isolated shower \u2013 high winds proved to be a safety issue for the ground-staff.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, they were unable to get the covers off the square to start the mopping up process.<\/p>\n<p>And umpires Tom Lungley and Jack Shantry called the day off just after their 3.30pm inspection. That was their fifth inspection throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p>At that stage, only one game across either division of the Championship had started \u2013 the Division One top-of-the-table clash between Surrey and Nottinghamshire at the Kia Oval.<\/p>\n<p>Yorkshire started this week in seventh place in the top-flight table, nine points ahead of second-bottom Durham, who are next week\u2019s opponents at Headingley.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sussex are three points better off and a place better off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Picture by John Heald. The scene at The 1st Central County Ground, Hove today. The opening day of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-140024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140024","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=140024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}