Southampton: The World Test Championship final between India and New Zealand in Southampton, raining at regular intervals since morning, ruined the entire day’s play on Friday! When the rain stopped for the last time at 7:30 IST, the umpires, after inspecting the ground, decided to cancel the rest of the day’s play. Two sessions before departure, meaning 60 overs of play had already been completely washed away. So after the rain stopped, there was a slight hope that some overs of the last session and extra hours would be played, but after the inspection, the on-field umpires found that it was too much to make the ground playable even within the next few hours. It’s more difficult.
After this both the umpires informed their decision to the match referee and announced the cancellation of the day’s play. At the same time, those fans were also completely disappointed, who were thinking that they might somehow get to see the game of 15-20 overs. However, on Saturday, the game will start at three o’clock Indian time and the toss will also happen at 2:30. In such a situation, fans just pray that no further rain disturbs. If this happens, the first day’s wasted game will be adjusted to reserve day on June 23.
Earlier, according to Indian time, the rain stopped at about 4:46 minutes, but this interruption lasted only about eight minutes and it started raining again and seeing its speed, it seems that today there can hardly be a game. Earlier, the BCCI had informed about the cancellation of the game of the first session by tweeting. Let us tell you that the day of 23 June has been kept by the ICC as a reserve day. Whatever game is wasted, it will be played on 23rd June. In such a situation, there is some relief for the fans, but this relief is also related to the rain.
