{"id":157892,"date":"2020-08-25T16:03:30","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T14:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/08\/25\/england-v-pakistan-third-test-day-five-hit-by-rain-delay-live\/"},"modified":"2020-08-25T16:03:30","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T14:03:30","slug":"england-v-pakistan-third-test-day-five-hit-by-rain-delay-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=157892","title":{"rendered":"England v Pakistan: third Test, day five hit by rain delay \u2013 live!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rain forecast early in Southampton on final day of seriesCounty cricket \u2013 live! Check in on all of the latest newsThe Spin: women\u2019s game well placed to avoid male-led stuntingGet in touch! Email Daniel or tweet @DanielHarris 3.03pm BST \u201c56 hours? Pah!\u201d says Martyn Baker of my pathetic sojourn. \u201cLoads of people must have taken the pre-cheap flights Magic Bus down to Athens from London. I did it in 1982 \u2013 two-and-a-half days of discomfort. Still, I was young and carefree so\u2026\u201dI remember a log-in on a football forum years ago, which was The Bus to Videoton \u2013 who Manchester United played in 1985. Momentarily excited, I checked Google Maps, but that effort comes in at a paltry 22 hours. 2.57pm BST \u201cLeft Casablanca airport before the start of play,\u201d says Nick Cherkas of his 25\/08\/19. \u201cExpected a few lofted strikes to mid on before an Aussie win around lunchtime. Spent eight hours travelling to Saudi before getting some WiFi at Jeddah airport. Couldn\u2019t believe my eyes &#8211; and many other bemused travellers and pilgrims couldn\u2019t believe their ears. \u2018Get in Stokesy you beauty!\u2019 Finally arrived in Riyadh and watched the highlights. Happy days. It was also my daughter\u2019s 14th birthday \u2013 she got a shout out on the OBO in 2005 which brought an England wicket. Perhaps a happy 15th birthday to Layla might bring the sun out in Southampton?\u201dHappy 15th birthday Layla! Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2020\/aug\/25\/england-v-pakistan-third-test-day-five-live\" target=\"_blank\">England v Pakistan: third Test, day five hit by rain delay \u2013 live!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rain forecast early in Southampton on final day of seriesCounty cricket \u2013 live! Check in on all of the latest newsThe Spin: women\u2019s game well placed to avoid male-led stuntingGet in touch! Email Daniel or tweet @DanielHarris 3.03pm BST \u201c56 hours? Pah!\u201d says Martyn Baker of my pathetic sojourn. \u201cLoads [&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-157892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157892","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=157892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}