{"id":2177,"date":"2010-06-02T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/?p=2177"},"modified":"2020-10-26T12:30:51","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T12:30:51","slug":"its-just-not-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/blog\/2010\/06\/02\/its-just-not-cricket\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s just not cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the last ball of the over, in runs the young medium pacer, bowling over the wicket, off a short run-up. But what&#8217;s that in his hand? It&#8217;s The Ball. And what a delivery &#8212; right up there in the block hole. The Ball hits the batsman about knee-height on his front pad. There&#8217;s a large shout for LBW. It looks plum. The umpire&#8217;s hand goes up. He&#8217;s out. Howzat!<\/p>\n<div class=\"captioned_image alignnone\" style=\"width: 640px\"><span id=\"attachment_2281\"  class=\"wp-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/05\/mal_blan_DSC02042.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2281 size-full\" title=\"The DHL cricket team are on The Ball\" src=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/05\/mal_blan_DSC02042.jpg\" alt=\"The DHL cricket team are on The Ball\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/05\/mal_blan_DSC02042.jpg 640w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/05\/mal_blan_DSC02042-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/05\/mal_blan_DSC02042-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/05\/mal_blan_DSC02042-200x112.jpg 200w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/05\/mal_blan_DSC02042-240x135.jpg 240w, https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/05\/mal_blan_DSC02042-320x180.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/span><small class=\"wp-caption-text\">The DHL cricket team are on The Ball<\/small><\/div>\n<p><em>Thanks to the DHL cricket team for being good sports. It may not quite be the Spirit of Football, but it&#8217;s certainly the Spirit of Cricket.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the last ball of the over, in runs the young medium pacer, bowling over the wicket, off a short run-up. But what&#8217;s that in his hand? It&#8217;s The Ball. And what a delivery &#8212; right up there in the block hole. The Ball hits the batsman about knee-height on his front pad. There&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221,18,232],"tags":[176,178,162],"class_list":["post-2177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-malawi-countries","category-the-ball","category-the-journey","tag-blantyre","tag-cricket","tag-malawi"],"geo":{"latitude":-15.7930402999999994761992638814263045787811279296875,"longitude":34.99359129999999851179381948895752429962158203125,"description":"Blantyre, Malawi"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/05\/mal_blan_DSC02042.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3284,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions\/3284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}