{"id":7974,"date":"2017-09-24T15:56:27","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T13:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/09\/24\/ecb-weighing-up-pros-and-cons-of-shortening-test-matches-to-four-days\/"},"modified":"2017-09-24T15:56:27","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T13:56:27","slug":"ecb-weighing-up-pros-and-cons-of-shortening-test-matches-to-four-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=7974","title":{"rendered":"ECB weighing up pros and cons of shortening Test matches to four days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 England and Wales Cricket Board \u2018can see benefits\u2019 of compact scheduling\u2022 But it has yet to take a firm position on four-day TestsThe England and Wales Cricket Board says it has \u201cno firm position\u201d yet on playing four-day Tests in this country.It has been reported that the idea of shortening Tests from five to four days has the support of the ECB, with the English game\u2019s governing body launching a new high-profile domestic Twenty20 tournament in 2020 which will ensure an increasingly packed summer from then on. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2017\/sep\/24\/four-day-test-match-cricket-ecb\" target=\"_blank\">ECB weighing up pros and cons of shortening Test matches to four days<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 England and Wales Cricket Board \u2018can see benefits\u2019 of compact scheduling\u2022 But it has yet to take a firm position on four-day TestsThe England and Wales Cricket Board says it has \u201cno firm position\u201d yet on playing four-day Tests in this country.It has been reported that the idea of [&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-7974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7974","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=7974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}