{"id":95951,"date":"2019-06-04T15:58:33","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T13:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/06\/04\/cricket-world-cup-2019-afghanistan-v-sri-lanka-hit-by-rain-delay-live\/"},"modified":"2019-06-04T15:58:33","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T13:58:33","slug":"cricket-world-cup-2019-afghanistan-v-sri-lanka-hit-by-rain-delay-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=95951","title":{"rendered":"Cricket World Cup 2019: Afghanistan v Sri Lanka hit by rain delay \u2013\u00a0live!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cricket World Cup updates from Cardiff, 10.30am BST startCounty cricket \u2013 live! Follow all the latest with Tanya AldredAnd why not email Rob? 2.58pm BST If no further batting is possible for Sri Lanka (182\/8 in 33 overs) Afghanistan&#8217;s targets will be 171 in 33 overs163 in 30 overs146 in 25 overs126 in 20 overs#CWC19#CWC2019#SLvAfg#AfgvSL https:\/\/t.co\/G2YpPv0q7f 2.54pm BST \u201cGood evening from India, Mr Smyth,\u201d writes Abhijato Sensarma. \u201cI was quite pleased when a fantastic ensemble lead by the inimitable Emma John took the time to response to a question I had asked them via email on the third episode of The Spin podcast, one I\u2019m already hooked on! Since the rain won\u2019t be stopping for a while, I would like to ask you the same question: If this World Cup turns out to be its best edition with innumerable thrillers and the tightest title race seen so far, will you support ICC\u2019s decision of having just 10 teams in the tournament? Or would you still prefer a \u2018World\u2019 Cup with more teams even if it\u2019s a \u2018compromise\u2019 on sustained quality, considering it includes more of the titular \u2018world\u2019?\u201dNo, I don\u2019t think even a great World Cup would justify that decision. But I don\u2019t know what the answer is, because while most of us would prefer 12, 14 or 16 teams, nobody has come up with a satisfactory and realistic format with those numbers. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2019\/jun\/04\/cricket-world-cup-2019-afghanistan-v-sri-lanka-live\" target=\"_blank\">Cricket World Cup 2019: Afghanistan v Sri Lanka hit by rain delay \u2013\u00a0live!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cricket World Cup updates from Cardiff, 10.30am BST startCounty cricket \u2013 live! Follow all the latest with Tanya AldredAnd why not email Rob? 2.58pm BST If no further batting is possible for Sri Lanka (182\/8 in 33 overs) Afghanistan&#8217;s targets will be 171 in 33 overs163 in 30 overs146 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-95951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95951","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=95951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}