{"id":28870,"date":"2021-01-31T08:11:19","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T09:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=28870"},"modified":"2021-01-31T10:59:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T10:59:52","slug":"was-covid-mayhem-forces-bbl-finals-overhaul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=28870","title":{"rendered":"WA&#039;s COVID mayhem forces BBL finals overhaul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BBL&#x27;s &#x27;Challenger&#x27; final set for Thursday night has been moved from Perth to Canberra after Western Australia was thrown into lockdown amid the COVID-19 crisis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE BBL NEWS:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cricket\/bbl-perth-scorchers-sydney-sixers-mitch-marsh-fine-suspension-umpire-sam-nogajski-outburst-drs\/be565c14-8339-43e0-bf2e-addfe4f950d9?ocid=Social-WWOS\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Perth Scorchers star Mitch Marsh fined $5000 but avoids suspension after extraordinary outburst at umpire\">Perth Scorchers star Mitch Marsh fined $5000 but avoids suspension after extraordinary outburst at umpire<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Perth Scorchers had been scheduled to face the winner of tonight&#x27;s &#x27;Knockout&#x27; clash between the Sydney Thunder and Brisbane Heat at Optus Stadium, but the match is now set to take place at Manuka Oval.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE BBL NEWS:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cricket\/bbl10-finals-sydney-sixers-perth-scorchers-james-vince-century-wide-andrew-tye\/c24ec079-c225-4c81-ade7-66e9a23e1c08\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Sydney Sixers batsman James Vince left stranded on 98 after Andrew Tye bowls the unthinkable\">Sydney Sixers batsman James Vince left stranded on 98 after Andrew Tye bowls the unthinkable<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"6ab8a6a2-4137-4299-9f67-eba5ff3d33ff\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/6ab8a6a2-4137-4299-9f67-eba5ff3d33ff\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Western Australia was forced into lockdown at 6pm on Sunday and it will last until 6pm on Friday, a desperate response to the state registering its first locally acquired COVID-19 case in almost 10 months.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true)\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"clicking here!\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><em>clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The BBL&#x27;s &#x27;Challenger&#x27; final set for Thursday night has been moved from Perth to Canberra after Western Australia was thrown into lockdown amid the COVID-19 <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=28870\" title=\"WA&#039;s COVID mayhem forces BBL finals overhaul\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28870"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28872,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28870\/revisions\/28872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}