{"id":764124,"date":"2026-09-08T16:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T16:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/764124\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T16:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T16:48:09","slug":"county-championship-sussex-surrey-washed-out-on-day-one-at-hove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/764124\/","title":{"rendered":"County Championship: Sussex-Surrey washed out on day one at Hove"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rothesay County Championship, Division One, County Ground, Hove (day one)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sussex: Yet to bat<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Surrey: Yet to bat<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Toss yet to take place<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/scorecard\/e-233565\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Match scorecard<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Play was abandoned without a ball being bowled on the opening day of the County Championship Division One game between Sussex and Surrey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After heavy overnight and morning rain it was announced that there would be no play before lunch. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Umpires Jack Shantry and Nigel Llong than waited a further hour before finally calling it off for the day. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sixth-placed Surrey and even fourth-placed Sussex, 16 points better off, still need points to be safe from relegation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The toss is yet to take place, so the two teams are yet to be announced. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">ECB Reporters&#8217; Network supported by Rothesay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rothesay County Championship, Division One, County Ground, Hove (day one) Sussex: Yet to bat Surrey: Yet to bat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-764124","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\/764124","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=764124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}