{"id":3076,"date":"2016-10-14T14:12:47","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T14:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=3076"},"modified":"2016-10-14T14:12:47","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T14:12:47","slug":"rain-curtails-englands-warm-up-fixture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2016\/10\/14\/rain-curtails-englands-warm-up-fixture\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain curtails England\u2019s warm-up fixture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England\u2019s preparations for their Test series against Bangladesh were disrupted Friday when the first day\u2019s play of a two-day warm-up fixture against a Bangladesh XI was cancelled due to an unplayable pitch.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-quote fb_iframe_widget\">\u201cUmpires deemed the ground condition was not suitable to start the match after overnight rain,\u201d a Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) spokesman said, referring to the ground in Chittagong.<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe two teams will now play a 45-over match tomorrow,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>England are scheduled to play another two-day warm-up match against a BCB XI on October 16-17 as part of their preparations for the two-Test series against Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p>The opening Test begins in Chittagong on October 20. The second Test will be played in Mirpur, starting October 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England&rsquo;s preparations for their Test series against Bangladesh were disrupted Friday when the first day&rsquo;s play of a two-day warm-up fixture against a Bangladesh XI was cancelled due to an unplayable pitch. &ldquo;Umpires deemed the ground condition was not suitable to start the match after overnight rain,&rdquo; a Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) spokesman said, referring to the ground in Chittagong. &ldquo;The two teams will now play a 45-over match tomorrow,&rdquo; he added. England are scheduled to play another two-day warm-up match against a BCB XI on October 16-17 as part<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3078,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076\/revisions\/3078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}