{"id":728401,"date":"2026-08-05T15:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T15:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/728401\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T15:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T15:32:10","slug":"ireland-v-afghanistan-first-odi-at-bready-washed-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/728401\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland v Afghanistan: First ODI at Bready washed out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The first one-day international between Ireland and Afghanistan at Bready was abandoned without a ball bowled because of rain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Play was due to begin at 10:45 BST but, after persistent wet weather at the County Tyrone ground, the toss was delayed and a pitch inspection called for 12:00.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">What was to be new head coach Gary Wilson&#8217;s first game in charge of Ireland, and his side&#8217;s first 50-over fixture since May 2025, was abandoned at 12:27.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The second ODI of the five-game series is scheduled to take place at Bready on Friday before the teams head to Stormont in Belfast for the last three matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ireland are hosting the series despite what CEO Sarah Keane called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cz90w2pwp7ko\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;moral discomfort&#8221;<\/a> over the treatment of women in Afghanistan. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first one-day international between Ireland and Afghanistan at Bready was abandoned without a ball bowled because of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":728402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-728401","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\/728401","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=728401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}