{"id":5806,"date":"2020-12-06T07:53:50","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T08:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=5806"},"modified":"2020-12-06T08:56:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T08:56:42","slug":"saveng-1st-odi-cancelled-again-after-positive-covid-19-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=5806","title":{"rendered":"SAvENG: 1st ODI cancelled again after positive COVID-19 tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/SAvENG.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Paarl: The first ODI between South Africa and England has once again been canceled at a short notice after two staff members in a bio-secure environment tested positive for COVID-19.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The three-match series was due to start in Cape Town on Friday but was postponed after a South Africa player tested positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, it was announced that Cricket South Africa (CSA) and the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) have agreed to delay the start time of today&#8217;s ODI as England\u00a0were awaiting results after being re-tested on Saturday evening but now it is confirmed that the game has been altogether canceled.<\/p>\n<p>According to Reuters, the ODI series is now reduced to two-matches\u00a0that are scheduled to be played at Newlands on Monday and Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Note,\u00a0England whitewashed South Africa in the three-match T20I series earlier this week.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/saveng-1st-odi-postponed-after-one-player-test-covid-19-positive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SAvENG: 1st ODI postponed after one player tests COVID-19 positive<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Paarl: The first ODI between South Africa and England has once again been canceled at a short notice after two staff members in a bio-secure <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=5806\" title=\"SAvENG: 1st ODI cancelled again after positive COVID-19 tests\">[&#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\/5806"}],"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=5806"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5808,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5806\/revisions\/5808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}