adminINDIA vs New Zealand has been suspended after heavy fog descended on the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Stadium in India.
Play was stopped with India 100-2 and chasing New Zealand’s score of 274.
The unprecedented scenes led to players from both sides walking off the pitch with the fielders completely unable to see the ball.
Usually with poor weather during evening matches, a light reading can be taken but the fog made that impossible.
There was worry about whether the game would be able to be resumed due to the need for a breeze to lift the fog.
Fortunately that then arrived and after a 20 minute pause in proceedings and play resumed.
India are the favourites to win the game with a packed crowd in Dharamshala there to cheer them on.
India currently sit second in the group stage behind New Zealand in first. England are languishing all the way down in ninth of the ten teams competing despite being reigning champions.
They are struggling to follow up anything even close to their 2019 heroics on home-soil that saw them win the tournament at The Oval.
England’s defeat to South Africa by 229 runs is their heaviest defeat in a World Cup match.
And South Africa’s 399 runs is a record for the most runs scored in a match at the tournament — with England now looking dead certs to be flying home.
The top four teams from the group will advance to the semi-finals as the tournament moves away from its round-robin format. — The Sun
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