The one-off Take a look at between Afghanistan and New Zealand is about to be deserted with no ball being bowled.
Whereas the fourth day’s play was known as off because of incessant rain and moist outfield on the Shaheed Vijay Singh Pathik Stadium, the match officers determined to attend till Friday morning to evaluate the circumstances and take a choice.
Nevertheless, late on Thursday, the Afghanistan Cricket Board issued a press release saying that the pinnacle coaches of each the groups will handle the media at 9am on Friday, which might be adopted by a trophy presentation.
This would be the eighth time within the historical past of Take a look at cricket when a match might be known as off with no single ball being bowled. The final time such an incident occurred was in 1998 when India’s away fixture in opposition to New Zealand in Dunedin was deserted on the third day and an unofficial one-dayer was performed on the fourth day.
This was purported to be Afghanistan’s tenth Take a look at since making its red-ball debut in 2018.
By the way, the venue, internet hosting its first Take a look at, got here below the scanner for missing services and fundamental drainage.
After drawing flak for failing to get the sport underway for the primary couple of days regardless of it being sunny, the stadium authorities and the ACB introduced covers from the Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi, whereas the Uttar Pradesh Cricket Affiliation despatched tremendous soppers to get the bottom again in form.
However with heavy rain resulting in water-logging in some components of the venue, it was not doable for the groundsmen to get issues again in form.