{"id":4958,"date":"2004-04-16T10:01:26","date_gmt":"2004-04-16T09:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=4958"},"modified":"2004-04-16T10:01:26","modified_gmt":"2004-04-16T09:01:26","slug":"howzat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2004\/04\/16\/howzat\/","title":{"rendered":"Howzat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s the first day of the new county cricket season today, and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport1\/hi\/cricket\/3625179.stm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"BBC Sport\">Sussex kick off at The Oval<\/a> against Surrey. I&#8217;m not entirely confident that Sussex are good enough to retain the title, and would probably put my money on Lancashire. And Sussex&#8217;s one-day form is absolutely abysmal &#8211; to win the county championship and yet come last in the one-day competition in the same season must be some sort of record.<br \/>\nEither way, I agree with Chris Adams&#8217;s assertion on the news this morning that the domestic game is certainly alive and kicking and giving some good and entertaining cricket &#8211; a fact reflected in attendances at Hove which have been steadily increasing for some time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s the first day of the new county cricket season today, and Sussex kick off at The Oval against Surrey. I&#8217;m not entirely confident that Sussex are good enough to retain the title, and would probably put my money on Lancashire. And Sussex&#8217;s one-day form is absolutely abysmal &#8211; to win the county championship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sporting-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}