{"id":38606,"date":"2024-06-05T12:25:49","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T07:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=38606"},"modified":"2024-06-05T12:25:49","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T07:25:49","slug":"eng-vs-sco-heavy-rain-shatters-scotlands-opportunity-to-upset-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world-cup-2024\/eng-vs-sco-heavy-rain-shatters-scotlands-opportunity-to-upset-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Eng vs Sco: Heavy rain shatters Scotland&#8217;s opportunity to upset England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">BARBADOS: The Group B match between Scotland and defending champion England was abandoned due to persistent rain after a flying start by the Scottishs <\/span>at\u00a0Kensington Oval, Barbados, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">During the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/t20-world-cup-2024-afghanistan-thrash-debutante-uganda\/\">6th match<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/t20-world-2024-icc-announces-massive-cash-prize-for-winner-team-details-inside\/\">ICC Men&#8217;s T20 World Cup<\/a>, Scotland won the toss, and skipper <span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Richie Berrington opted to bat first against the old-rival England line-up packed with pace options.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">At the start of the game, a brief rain spell delayed the play by 30 minutes before England&#8217;s bowlers got the game underway at an overcast Kensington Oval.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">But a second and heavier rain delay brought the match to a halt with Scotland 51\/0 after 6.2 overs, forcing the game to be reduced to ten overs per side.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>After Scotland concluded their innings at 90-0, <span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">a third shower brought the match to a halt<\/span> and the umpires decided to call it off <span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">with no result possible<\/span>. Both teams were awarded one point each.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Buttler\u2019s England are defending champions and have the boost of including a fit-again Jofra Archer in their squad for the tournament, with their next game coming on Saturday against Australia at the same venue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">England have never beaten a European side at a Men\u2019s T20 World Cup, and the rain ensured that record continued in Barbados. But Scotland will be rueing a missed opportunity to defend their decent <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">total<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0and will hope to get a win on the board when they face Namibia on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BARBADOS: The Group B match between Scotland and defending champion England was abandoned due to persistent rain after a flying start by the Scottishs at\u00a0Kensington Oval, Barbados, on Tuesday. During the 6th match of the ICC Men&#8217;s T20 World Cup, Scotland won the toss, and skipper Richie Berrington opted to bat first against the old-rival [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":38607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,18058],"tags":[1459,18114,18113],"class_list":["post-38606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-world-cup-2024","tag-icc-t20-world-cup","tag-england-scotland-match-abandoned","tag-england-vs-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}