{"id":43097,"date":"2021-03-10T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T10:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=43097"},"modified":"2021-03-10T11:06:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T11:06:02","slug":"world-test-championship-final-will-take-place-in-southampton-confirms-icc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=43097","title":{"rendered":"\u2018World Test Championship final will take place in Southampton\u2019 confirms ICC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Southampton.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Karachi: The International Cricket Council (ICC) today confirmed that the final of the World Test Championship between India and New Zealand will be staged in a bio-secure bubble at the Hampshire Bowl in Southampton.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The ICC Board took the decision after discussing with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) where a range of options were considered to ensure the inaugural final could be staged safely with the potential impact of COVID-19 minimised for all involved<\/p>\n<p>While considering the Hampshire Bowl for the big match, ICC considers ECB&#8217;s effort to stage a full summer of bio-safe international cricket in 2020. The venue provides world-class playing and training facilities, giving both teams the best possible environment in which to prepare.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, it is likely that a limited number of fans will be allowed into the Hampshire Bowl to watch the final.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, New Zealand was the first team to make the ICC World Test Championship final and they were joined by India following their series win over England which concluded on Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Karachi: The International Cricket Council (ICC) today confirmed that the final of the World Test Championship between India and New Zealand will be staged in <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=43097\" title=\"\u2018World Test Championship final will take place in Southampton\u2019 confirms ICC\">[&#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\/43097"}],"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=43097"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43099,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43097\/revisions\/43099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}