{"id":5117,"date":"2023-01-06T10:51:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T05:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=269526"},"modified":"2023-01-06T10:51:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T05:21:04","slug":"aus-vs-sa-scg-crowd-boo-as-umpires-declare-stumps-without-a-single-ball-being-bowled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/aus-vs-sa-scg-crowd-boo-as-umpires-declare-stumps-without-a-single-ball-being-bowled\/","title":{"rendered":"AUS vs SA: SCG crowd \u2018boo\u2019 as umpires declare stumps without a single ball being bowled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was an unfortunate day for Australia\u2019s iconic Sydney Cricket Ground as the third day of 3rd Test between Australia and South Africa was just a waiting period, without any actual play.<\/p>\n<p>The umpires inspected and waited for more than five hours for the rain to not be an unfortunate cause for the game to get postponed.<\/p>\n<p>Right from the first drizzle at 10:00 AM local time to the umpire\u2019s decision of calling it a day at 3:54 PM local time, the fans as well as the players kept hoping for at least an hour\u2019s game.<\/p>\n<p>The rain got heavier at times and due to which the ground staff couldn\u2019t approve for a continuation because of the ground\u2019s wet condition.<\/p>\n<p>Fans as well as netizens booed the officials to host a match at SCG despite understanding the weather conditions.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Play abandoned \ud83d\ude14<\/p>\n<p>We'll see you tomorrow. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PinkTest?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PinkTest<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XeU2HoGuYM\">pic.twitter.com\/XeU2HoGuYM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sydney Cricket Ground (@scg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/scg\/status\/1611225277354610688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2023<\/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>It was an unfortunate day for Australia\u2019s iconic Sydney Cricket Ground as the third day of 3rd Test between Australia\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":28088,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3431,216],"class_list":["post-5117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-australia","tag-test"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117","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\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}