{"id":4589,"date":"2020-12-02T22:06:45","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T23:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=4589"},"modified":"2020-12-03T02:25:59","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T02:25:59","slug":"astonishing-pitch-for-series-opening-test-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=4589","title":{"rendered":"Astonishing pitch for series-opening Test match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An extraordinary green-top pitch has been presented for the <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cricket\/live-scores\/new-zealand-v-west-indies-new-zealand-v-west-indies-test-series-2020\/49333\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"first Test between New Zealand and the West Indies\">first Test between New Zealand and the West Indies<\/a> at Seddon Park.<\/p>\n<p>Green wickets are common at the Hamilton venue but this Test pitch is barely distinguishable from the rest of the field, barring the mower lines.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wwos\/status\/1334268978965966851?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/wwos\/status\/1334268978965966851?s=20<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Potentially adding to the headache of batting on the wicket, play was delayed due to rain. Clearly, no additional moisture was needed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BLACKCAPS\/status\/1334267627997290496?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/BLACKCAPS\/status\/1334267627997290496?s=20<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The lush deck raised eyebrows on social media.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MathewJThompson\/status\/1334267510569332736?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/MathewJThompson\/status\/1334267510569332736?s=20<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CricCrazyJohns\/status\/1334173235764625408?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/CricCrazyJohns\/status\/1334173235764625408?s=20<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gradecricketer\/status\/1334273678117224449?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/gradecricketer\/status\/1334273678117224449?s=20<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seddon Park hosted a New Zealand vs England Test last year and nothing untoward happened, as far as batting difficulties. However, the pitch had far more colour in that drawn match.<\/p>\n<p>England captain Joe Root was man of the match after making 226 in his side&#x27;s first innings score of 476. Tom Latham made a century for New Zealand as the Black Caps batted first to make 375 and Kane Williamson hit a second-innings ton in a team score of 2-241.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"b17813c1-c399-4c19-b0be-76b1c822f03f\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/b17813c1-c399-4c19-b0be-76b1c822f03f\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"1085\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>An extraordinary green-top pitch has been presented for the first Test between New Zealand and the West Indies at Seddon Park. Green wickets are common <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=4589\" title=\"Astonishing pitch for series-opening Test match\">[&#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\/4589"}],"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=4589"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4591,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4589\/revisions\/4591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}