{"id":140853,"date":"2025-09-16T09:41:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T09:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/140853\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T09:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T09:41:11","slug":"county-championship-derbyshire-and-glamorgan-off-amid-high-winds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/140853\/","title":{"rendered":"County Championship: Derbyshire and Glamorgan off amid high winds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">High winds sweeping across the Midlands caused play to be called off on the opening day between Derbyshire and Glamorgan because of dangerous conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite dry weather for most of the day, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cz9j5d0jg70o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the strength of the winds<\/a> meant it was judged unsafe for the ground-staff to remove the covers, which had been extended across the square because of overnight rain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Umpires Steve O&#8217;Shaughnessy and Suri Shanmugam made a series of checks before calling off play at 15:05 BST.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Derbyshire go into the penultimate round of the Championship season 27 points behind Glamorgan, who could seal promotion with a draw with a match to spare, if none of the chasing pack wins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With their rivals elsewhere also confined to the pavilion, there was no change in the promotion race. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"High winds sweeping across the Midlands caused play to be called off on the opening day between Derbyshire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-140853","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\/140853","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=140853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}