{"id":13248,"date":"2023-10-17T20:58:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T20:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=13248"},"modified":"2023-10-17T20:58:50","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T20:58:50","slug":"2nd-odi-wi-w-vs-australia-match-abandoned-due-to-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/2nd-odi-wi-w-vs-australia-match-abandoned-due-to-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"2nd ODI WI-W vs AUSTRALIA: Match Abandoned Due to Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>The second One Day International between the West Indies women and Australia met an untimely end as rain played spoilsport at the Junction Oval in Melbourne, Australia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The match, which had already experienced delays due to rain, was further curtailed to 29 overs per side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When play was abruptly halted after a second heavy downpour, the West Indies, sent in to bat, had reached a total of 107 for 8 in 25.3 overs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aaliyah Alleyne (28), Rashada Williams (23), and Skipper Hayley Matthews (20) were the leading run-scorers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Annabel Sutherland and Alana King shone with the ball, each claiming three wickets for the Aussies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With this abandonment, Australia retains their lead of one-nil in the series, heading into the final game scheduled for Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While expressing disappointment over the match&#8217;s outcome, West Indies women captain Hayley Matthews affirmed that the Caribbean team is determined to elevate their performance in the third ODI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matthews acknowledged a few positives from the match but emphasized the need for further improvement before the final clash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The third ODI is set to kick off at 19:05 on Friday, October 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second One Day International between the West Indies women and Australia met an untimely end as rain played spoilsport at the Junction Oval in Melbourne, Australia. The match, which&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[352],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13250,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13248\/revisions\/13250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}