{"id":157754,"date":"2020-08-24T15:48:12","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T13:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/08\/24\/england-v-pakistan-third-test-day-four-hit-by-rain-delay-live\/"},"modified":"2020-08-24T15:48:12","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T13:48:12","slug":"england-v-pakistan-third-test-day-four-hit-by-rain-delay-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=157754","title":{"rendered":"England v Pakistan: third Test, day four hit by rain delay \u2013 live!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over-by-over coverage of the action at the Rose BowlCounty cricket \u2013 live! Follow updates around the groundsAny thoughts? You can mail Daniel or tweet @DanielHarris 2.48pm BST \u201cJust reading the back and forth about books leads me to a pet subject,\u201d muses Kim Thonger. \u201cDifferent outcomes to cricket matches in parallel but slightly different universes. Imagine one close by where Jimmy\u2019s four dropped catches in 30-something deliveries had all been snaffled instead and he\u2019s already on 601 and thinking happily about the next 99 to take him to 700. We could make a screenplay to be filmed by Christopher Nolan in his inimitable unfathomable style, with Colin Farrell as Jimmy. To improve box office receipts I suggest we involve Brad Pitt somehow, possibly as a grizzled third umpire with maverick tendencies.\u201dI can only countenance Michael Gough as himself, but would permit Pitt as a bungling but strangely lovable text commentator. 2.42pm BST \u201cPlease tell Max Millings not to lament, as we\u2019ve been living his memoirs via the OBO for fifteen years or more,\u201d says Brad McMillan. \u201cTherefore, even while remaining \u2018unpublished\u2019, he\u2019s already reached his audience and, sadly, missed out on the royalties. I\u2019ve enjoyed the the experience though, so please also send him my thanks.\u201dWhat greater royalties could there be than those? Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2020\/aug\/24\/england-v-pakistan-third-test-day-four-live\" target=\"_blank\">England v Pakistan: third Test, day four hit by rain delay \u2013 live!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over-by-over coverage of the action at the Rose BowlCounty cricket \u2013 live! Follow updates around the groundsAny thoughts? You can mail Daniel or tweet @DanielHarris 2.48pm BST \u201cJust reading the back and forth about books leads me to a pet subject,\u201d muses Kim Thonger. \u201cDifferent outcomes to cricket matches in [&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-157754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157754","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=157754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}