{"id":3862,"date":"2023-09-21T06:21:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T06:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/?p=3862"},"modified":"2023-09-21T06:23:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T06:23:32","slug":"root-misses-england-tune-up-chance-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/root-misses-england-tune-up-chance-after\/","title":{"rendered":"Root misses England tune-up chance after infuriating ODI abandonment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Joe Root\u2019s bid to have one final hit before England\u2019s World Cup departure was thwarted by a sodden outfield and what proved a maddening abandonment at Headingley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Boos rang around the ground when the first one-day international against Ireland was called off at 4.50pm without a ball bowled. It had not rained for more than two hours by this stage but sections of the outfield \u2013 including the run-up area for bowlers at the Kirkstall Lane End \u2013 were deemed dangerous by the officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As well as leaving 14,000 spectators dismayed, and forcing the England and Wales Cricket<\/a> Board to issue refunds via insurance, it denied Root the extra time in the middle he was craving. The No 3 had put his name forward for the first match played by this otherwise second-string England side before next week\u2019s flight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recent scores of six, nought, four and 29 against New Zealand had prompted this but given the difference in expected conditions in India \u2013 and two warm-up matches in Guwahati before England\u2019s campaign begins against the Black Caps in Ahmedabad on 5 October \u2013 it was hard to see a great deal of value in it for Root.<\/p>\n\n\n\n