{"id":165697,"date":"2025-06-07T19:05:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T19:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/165697\/"},"modified":"2025-06-07T19:05:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T19:05:22","slug":"rain-prevents-any-play-in-somerset-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/165697\/","title":{"rendered":"RAIN PREVENTS ANY PLAY IN SOMERSET SHOWDOWN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><strong>Persistent rain put paid to any prospect of play in The Blaze\u2019s Vitality Blast clash with Somerset at Trent Bridge on Saturday afternoon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite the toss taking place as scheduled, and home captain Kirstie Gordon opting to field first, that was as far as the action got, with intermittent but frequent showers from 2:30pm.<\/p>\n<p>Pitch inspections were scheduled over the course of the afternoon, but no positive news was able to emerge as the covers remained in place for the majority of the time.<\/p>\n<p>As the cut-off time approached, the decision was made by umpires Amy Clark and Neil Pratt to abandon efforts to get the game on, leaving both sides with two points.<\/p>\n<p>The Blaze are next in action away to Surrey at the Kia Oval on Wednesday, 11 June, beginning at 6:30pm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trentbridge.co.uk\/t20tickets.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1747388761_outlaws-x-blaze-assemble-rr-screen.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Persistent rain put paid to any prospect of play in The Blaze\u2019s Vitality Blast clash with Somerset at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1401,1406,1404,1403,1407,79,1400,1402,16,15,1405],"class_list":{"0":"post-165697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-bridge","9":"tag-cricket","10":"tag-nottingham","11":"tag-nottinghamshire","12":"tag-outlaws","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-trent","15":"tag-trentbridge","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-west-bridgford"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114643646958126719","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165697","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=165697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}