{"id":416188,"date":"2025-09-11T16:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T16:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/416188\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T16:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T16:08:11","slug":"county-championship-hampshire-handed-fine-and-points-deduction-for-substandard-pitch-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/416188\/","title":{"rendered":"County Championship: Hampshire handed fine and points deduction for &#8216;substandard pitch&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Hampshire have been given an eight-point deduction in the County Championship and fined \u00a35,000 for a &#8220;substandard pitch&#8221; during their home match against Sussex in May.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The independent cricket discipline panel (CDP) ruled there was no intent on Hampshire&#8217;s part to gain any unfair advantage from the pitch in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/clygrp3jr1ro\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a match they lost by nine wickets.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the club had not taken all reasonable steps to produce a pitch of an appropriate standard, an allegation which Hampshire denied.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The CDP say that following the match, the referee completed a pitch report rating the pitch as &#8220;below average&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.ecb.co.uk\/ecb\/document\/2025\/09\/11\/b527a939-f18c-4663-9698-db181d93e234\/CDP-Hampshire-CCC-September-2025-.pdf\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in respect of the unevenness of the bounce and assessment of turn., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The deduction moves Hampshire from fifth to eighth position in the County Championship table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hampshire have been given an eight-point deduction in the County Championship and fined \u00a35,000 for a &#8220;substandard pitch&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-416188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416188","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=416188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}