{"id":339693,"date":"2025-12-30T10:52:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T00:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=339693"},"modified":"2025-12-30T10:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T00:56:07","slug":"sydney-test-likely-to-be-rain-interrupted-futher-diminishing-the-ashes-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=339693","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Test likely to be rain interrupted futher diminishing the Ashes Series"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As the Ashes Series is dead and on the back of the Melbourne Test being two days only of cricket, we now turn our attention to Sydney a ground with a track record of interrupted games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The track record on Sydney Tests speaks for itself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sydney has actually lost\u00a0<strong>26 full days<\/strong>\u00a0of Test cricket to rain, which is more than any other ground in Australia and even edges out Manchester (25) in the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For many fans, the irony of the 2025\/26 series is that after two matches were &#8220;ruined&#8221; by finishing too quickly (Perth and Melbourne), we are now heading to the one venue where the match might not finish at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The &#8220;Sydney Curse&#8221; by the Numbers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>If you feel like you&#8217;ve seen more &#8220;covers on&#8221; than &#8220;play on&#8221; at the SCG lately, you aren&#8217;t imagining it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>6 of the last 7<\/strong>\u00a0SCG Tests have been interrupted by rain.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>64% of days<\/strong>\u00a0during the Sydney Test over the last eight years have seen at least some rain.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>4 of the last 7<\/strong>\u00a0matches there have ended in draws, mostly due to weather.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Is it time to move the test from Sydney and place it with a test in Hobart?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The test is also the last time we are likely to see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=usman-khawaja\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Usman Khawaja\">Usman Khawaja<\/a> playing test cricket for Australia. Many have suggested the idea of farewell tests should be over and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=327577\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Usman Khawaja does not deserve a farewell\">Khawaja not deserving<\/a> of a farewell test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it time to move the test from Sydney and place it with a test in Hobart?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":339204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,14934],"tags":[5026,2139,18668],"class_list":["post-339693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-cricket","tag-nsw","tag-sydney","tag-the-ashes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=339693"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339696,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339693\/revisions\/339696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/339204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=339693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=339693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=339693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}