{"id":5186,"date":"2020-12-04T10:09:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T11:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=5186"},"modified":"2020-12-04T12:02:13","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T12:02:13","slug":"odi-series-in-disarray-after-covid-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=5186","title":{"rendered":"ODI series in disarray after COVID case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first cricket one-day international between South Africa and England was postponed on Friday after another player tested positive for the coronavirus in the host teams&#x27; secure bio-bubble.<\/p>\n<p>The game, the first of three ODIs, was postponed to Sunday, the two cricket federations said.<\/p>\n<p>Cricket South Africa and the England and Wales Cricket Board said the decision was made &quot;in the interests of the safety and wellbeing of both teams, match officials and all involved in the match.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><img data-video-id=\"6214135610001\" src=\"https:\/\/vms-network-images-prod.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/2020\/12\/330605\/pickerImage.jpg\" alt=\"Langer blows up at Boon\" data-vms-id=\"ref:ckia4yj4a001g0ip2e9xwpqp5\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The CEOs of both boards, Kugandrie Govender of CSA and Tom Harrison of the ECB, agreed to the postponement.<\/p>\n<p>The player, who was not named, is the third South African player to test positive during the England tour, which began in mid-November. <\/p>\n<p>One player tested positive for the virus before the teams went into the bubble at a Cape town hotel, while a second tested positive in the bubble and before the recent Twenty20 series.<\/p>\n<p><img data-video-id=\"6214136372001\" src=\"https:\/\/vms-network-images-prod.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/2020\/12\/330609\/pickerImage.jpg\" alt=\"Virat drops a soda\" data-vms-id=\"ref:ckia5iuq0001b0hmsa326gxzd\" \/><\/p>\n<p>England won that series 3-0.<\/p>\n<p>The re-scheduled ODI series will mean that the teams play back-to-back games on Sunday and Monday.<\/p>\n<p>England&#x27;s tour finishes with the third ODI on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The opening game will now be at Boland Park in the nearby city of Paarl, while Cape Town will host the last two ODIs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The first cricket one-day international between South Africa and England was postponed on Friday after another player tested positive for the coronavirus in the host <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=5186\" title=\"ODI series in disarray after COVID case\">[&#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\/5186"}],"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=5186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5188,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5186\/revisions\/5188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}