{"id":120,"date":"2005-11-24T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-24T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/?p=120"},"modified":"2011-07-06T23:37:26","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T22:37:26","slug":"cricket-er","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"Cricket&#8230;er&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Engalnd are not doing <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.cricinfo.com\/db\/NEW\/LIVE\/frames\/ENG_PAK_T2_20-24NOV2005.html\">too well<\/a> against Pakistan on the 5th day of the 2nd Test. Their top four went for 20 this morning. But I think only Bell got himself out. The rest were undone by the new ball swinging.<\/p>\n<p>So our hopes are with KP and Flintoff &#8211; not two men you&#8217;d expect to block. I just wish BBC Radio 4 LW didn&#8217;t go across to &#8220;Today in Parliament&#8221; every morning at 8.30am. There&#8217;s a time and a place&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Or perhaps I just need a DAB radio. I&#8217;d listen to it on my PC but the BBC aren&#8217;t broadcasting this Test on the internet.<\/p>\n<p>This series has put into perspective England&#8217;s achievement under Nasser Hussain in <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.cricinfo.com\/db\/ARCHIVE\/2000-01\/ENG_IN_PAK\/\">2000<\/a> to win a series in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Oh dear Pietersen has just been undone by a slower ball for 42. Now it&#8217;s up to Geraint Jones &amp; Flintoff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engalnd are not doing too well against Pakistan on the 5th day of the 2nd Test. Their top four went for 20 this morning. But I think only Bell got himself out. The rest were undone by the new ball swinging. So our hopes are with KP and Flintoff &#8211; not two men you&#8217;d expect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cricket"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6dbnw-1W","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}