The Women’s Big Bash match between Adelaide Strikers and Hobart Hurricanes was abandoned at the halfway stage after a ball was inadvertently rolled into the pitch.<\/p>\n
As the players warmed up between innings, a ball became stuck under the roller which was travelling up the playing surface.<\/p>\n
It resulted in a “hole” being created on the pitch which changed the playing conditions “significantly”.<\/p>\n
“After consultation, it was considered unreasonable to expect Hobart to bat in conditions that were materially different to those the Strikers had,” a statement said.<\/p>\n
Hurricanes captain Elyse Villani said the hole was “quite large and deep”.<\/p>\n
Both sides took one point as a result of the abandonment. <\/p>\n
Hurricanes had already guaranteed top spot and an automatic place in the final, while Strikers, who posted 167-4 before the incident are sixth, two spots below the qualification places, with one match to play.<\/p>\n
They are one point behind fifth-placed Perth Scorchers and fourth-placed Melbourne Renegades with the top four going through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Women’s Big Bash match between Adelaide Strikers and Hobart Hurricanes was abandoned at the halfway stage after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-301476","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\/301476","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=301476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}