{"id":36731,"date":"2025-12-18T02:11:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T02:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/india-v-south-africa-t20-abandoned-because-of-excessive-fog\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T02:11:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T02:11:21","slug":"india-v-south-africa-t20-abandoned-because-of-excessive-fog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/india-v-south-africa-t20-abandoned-because-of-excessive-fog\/","title":{"rendered":"India v South Africa T20 abandoned because of &#8216;excessive fog&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">The fourth T20 between India and South Africa was abandoned on Wednesday because of &#8220;excessive fog&#8221; at Ekana Stadium in Lucknow.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The toss was scheduled to take place at 13:00 GMT but did not even take place as the umpires called the match off at about 16:00 following a number of inspections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">India all-rounder Hardik Pandaya was seen wearing a mask on the pitch before the match, which raised questions about the pollution levels in Lucknow, which is in northern India.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aqi.in\/uk\/dashboard\/india\/uttar-pradesh\/lucknow\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">air quality index<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a> was about 400 at around the scheduled start time of the match &#8211; a reading considered to be hazardous.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, a statement said, the match &#8220;has been abandoned due to excessive fog, making playing conditions unsafe&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">India lead the five-match series 2-1 and the final meeting will take place in Ahmedabad on Friday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c20k8ex5y8ro?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fourth T20 between India and South Africa was abandoned on Wednesday because of &#8220;excessive fog&#8221; at Ekana Stadium in Lucknow. The toss was scheduled to take place at 13:00 GMT but did not even take place as the umpires called the match off at about 16:00 following a number of inspections. India all-rounder Hardik [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36733,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36731\/revisions\/36733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}