{"id":2793,"date":"2021-09-28T14:37:26","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T09:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=153589"},"modified":"2021-09-28T14:37:26","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T09:07:26","slug":"sheffield-shield-match-between-tasmania-and-queensland-postponed-due-to-increase-in-covid-19-cases-in-brisbane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/sheffield-shield-match-between-tasmania-and-queensland-postponed-due-to-increase-in-covid-19-cases-in-brisbane\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield Shield match between Tasmania and Queensland postponed due to increase in COVID-19 cases in Brisbane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, the Sheffield Shield match between Queensland and Tasmania has been officially postponed due to the outbreak in the number of COVID-19 cases currently in the state of Brisbane. The Tasmanian team decided to fly home back to Hobart after the postponement of the match. They would get more time to spend on their training sessions in the Gold Coast before the season starts. The teams had arrived in Brisbane on the weekend, now only to confirm that the match has been postponed with the perspective to be carried forward later through the entire season.<\/p>\n<p>Cricket Australia has confirmed the news that the match between Tasmania and Queensland has been officially postponed and will be carried later by tweeting, \u201c The Sheffield Shield clash between Queensland and Tasmania that was scheduled to start at 10 am AEST in Brisbane has been postponed.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">JUST IN: The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SheffieldShield?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SheffieldShield<\/a> clash between Queensland and Tasmania that was scheduled to start at 10am AEST in Brisbane has been postponed.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/qldcricket?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@qldcricket<\/a>: \"The match will now begin on Wednesday, September 29, subject to public health conditions.\"<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cricketcomau\/status\/1442631686441734154?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 27, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Queensland Cricket as well confirmed the news of the match getting postponed between Tasmania and Queensland due to the surge in COVID-19 cases in Brisbane via tweet, \u201c Cricket Australia advises that Sheffield Shield match between Queensland and Tasmania at Ian Healy Oval, due to begin today has been postponed.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cricket Australia advises that the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SheffieldShield?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SheffieldShield<\/a> match between Queensland and Tasmania at Ian Healy Oval, due to begin today, has been postponed. <\/p>\n<p>The match will be rescheduled to a new date later in the season, following the Tasmanian team\u2019s decision to fly home today.<br \/>(1\/3) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zssfI4cN2X\">pic.twitter.com\/zssfI4cN2X<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Queensland Cricket (@qldcricket) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/qldcricket\/status\/1442687926844887050?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 28, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Cricket Tasmania would like to thank Queensland cricket and Cricket Australia for their understanding of the decision as they mentioned, \u201cWe thank Queensland and Cricket Australia for their understanding and flexibility with the match postponement, and we hope that this preventative measure will and hindsight not have been required.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We look forward to playing the Queensland Bulls at the first opportunity. We thank <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/qldcricket?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@qldcricket<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CricketAus?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CricketAus<\/a> for their understanding and flexibility with this match postponement, and we hope that this preventative measure will, with hindsight, not have been required.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tasmanian Tigers (@TasmanianTigers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TasmanianTigers\/status\/1442649548241846276?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 28, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The match conducted between Tasmania and Queensland is been called off at the last moment due to the situation getting worsen in Brisbane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":25878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1535,2433],"class_list":["post-2793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-brisbane","tag-queensland"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}