Heavy rain, largely centred on the East and West Midlands, has caused the entire third day’s play to be washed out in six County Championship games.<\/b><\/p>\n
No play was possible at Edgbaston, Worcester, Derby, Hove, Northampton and Chelmsford.<\/p>\n
The Northamptonshire-Kent <\/b>game was the first of three Division Two games lost.<\/p>\n
After continuous, heavy rain at Wantage Road, umpires Paul Pollard and Hassan Adnan called time after carrying out an inspection just after lunch.<\/p>\n
The Derbyshire-Middlesex<\/b> game then quickly followed. Only 32.3 overs have been possible across the first three days so far, in a game both sides realistically needed to win to sustain their promotion hopes.<\/p>\n
The Division One Warwickshire-Nottinghamshire<\/b> game and Division Two Worcestershire-Lancashire<\/b> game then fell victim within two minutes of each other.<\/p>\n
Both matches lost the entire first day’s play too, leaving only a final-day quest for bonus points.<\/p>\n
Play had been scheduled to start in the Sussex-Somerset <\/b>game at Hove at 15:20 BST after the morning session had been lost. But further rain arrived moments before the resumption – a sequence that repeated itself half-an-hour later before play was abandoned for the day.<\/p>\n
The final washout to be confirmed was also in Division One, in the Essex-Surrey<\/b> clash at Chelmsford, where home hopes of wrapping up a third-day win were denied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heavy rain, largely centred on the East and West Midlands, has caused the entire third day’s play to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1176321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":["post-1176320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-birmingham","tag-birmingham","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117181478690767989","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1176320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1176321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1176320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1176320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1176320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}