{"id":269540,"date":"2019-06-14T14:31:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T12:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=269540"},"modified":"2019-06-14T14:31:43","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T12:31:43","slug":"england-wins-toss-and-opts-to-bowl-against-the-windies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=269540","title":{"rendered":"England wins toss and opts to bowl against the Windies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"js_2\" class=\"_5pbx userContent _3576\" data-testid=\"post_message\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\">\n<p>Sports Reporter<br \/>\nHosts England opted to bowl against West Indies as they plan to move forward with their 2019 Cricket World Cup campaign at the Rose Bowl in South Hampton.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/64369153_2292732394127041_6593229258439524352_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-269545\" src=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/64369153_2292732394127041_6593229258439524352_n-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/64369153_2292732394127041_6593229258439524352_n-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/64369153_2292732394127041_6593229258439524352_n-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/64369153_2292732394127041_6593229258439524352_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>England began the tournament by defeating South Africa in the opener but went down to Pakistan in their second match. They, however, gave their campaign a push by returning back on track and defeating Bangladesh on Saturday.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, Windies quicks bounced out Pakistan for 105 in their opening win before following it up by losing to Australia by only 15 runs. The match against Sri Lanka was washed out.<br \/>\nThe fickle English weather has been a constant concern in this World Cup but rain is predicted to stay away for the majority of the game.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-266465\" src=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Verimark728x180px.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports Reporter Hosts England opted to bowl against West Indies as they plan to move forward with their 2019 Cricket World Cup campaign at the Rose Bowl in South Hampton. England began the tournament by defeating South Africa in the opener but went down to Pakistan in their second match. They, however, gave their campaign &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":269545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>England wins toss and opts to bowl against the Windies - Informant\u00e9<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Hosts England opted to bowl against West Indies as they plan to move forward with their 2019 Cricket World Cup campaign at the Rose Bowl in South Hampton.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=269540\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"England wins toss and opts to bowl against the Windies - 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