There has been steady progress at the venue in Guwahati as the hessian sheet was removed and a pitch inspection was carried out. Kumar Sangakkara was among those checking the surface, while the roller was in operation to prepare the pitch for play.<\/p>\n
The main cover has also started to move, with ground staff working carefully to clear the area. Players from Rajasthan Royals and Mumbai Indians were seen continuing their warm-ups, suggesting that action could begin soon if conditions hold.<\/p>\n
Players return to the field as warm-ups intensify<\/strong><\/p>\n There was more activity on the ground as players went through their routines. Rohit Sharma was seen with a bat in hand, while Jasprit Bumrah moved around the field as preparations continued.<\/p>\n At the same time, players such as Riyan Parag were taking throwdowns, and others including Corbin Bosch, Jadeja, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Shardul Thakur and Nandre Burger were going through final drills.<\/p>\n With both sides warming up and the ground being readied, hopes are high that a shortened contest could still take place, depending on the final checks by the officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There has been steady progress at the venue in Guwahati as the hessian sheet was removed and a pitch inspection\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":473,"featured_media":47618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47617","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\/473"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47617"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47622,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47617\/revisions\/47622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}