{"id":121687,"date":"2019-12-03T15:00:23","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/12\/03\/englands-series-defeat-means-supposed-new-era-gets-off-to-flat-start-ali-martin\/"},"modified":"2019-12-03T15:00:23","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T14:00:23","slug":"englands-series-defeat-means-supposed-new-era-gets-off-to-flat-start-ali-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=121687","title":{"rendered":"England\u2019s series defeat means supposed new era gets off to flat start | Ali Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Loss to New Zealand means England have gone without a series win this year for the first time since 1999For the second time in less than two years England\u2019s Test team leave New Zealand with a 1-0 series defeat to show for their efforts; a hammering in the first outing and a slightly improved follow-up performance that still ended with a draw and handshakes.That said, while only 41 overs were bowled on a soggy final day, one that typically brightened up once the umpires had called things off, this still felt a flatter finish from Joe Root\u2019s beaten tourists than last year\u2019s thwarted late surge in Christchurch. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2019\/dec\/03\/england-new-zealand-series-joe-root-cricket\" target=\"_blank\">England\u2019s series defeat means supposed new era gets off to flat start | Ali Martin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loss to New Zealand means England have gone without a series win this year for the first time since 1999For the second time in less than two years England\u2019s Test team leave New Zealand with a 1-0 series defeat to show for their efforts; a hammering in the first outing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}