Rain Abandons Pakistan & Srilanka Match, Pick A Point Each

"We would like a hitter to play a a hundred balls in associate degree innings," were the words of Jon Lewis, Sri Lanka's baseball manager. Well, maybe he'd forgotten regarding the English weather, that manifested itself within the sort of a humid, wet day in urban center, creating one ball not possible, refrain 100. Rain washed out the league game between West Pakistan and Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka in urban center on Friday (June 7), creating it not possible for the captains to even start for the toss.

The damp firework created it not possible for Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka to urge on the board in terms of tournament encounters against West Pakistan - a head-to-head that reads a morbid 0-7 against the Sri Lankans at the instant. It conjointly ensured that the groups solely get one purpose every and miss out on one-upping the opposite to form a climb up. Pakistan, considering the head-to-head record, associate degreed current type (on the rear of an inspiring win against the hosts) would have backed themselves to return out on high and square measure seemingly to be cheesed off by the volatile English weather.

With hail expected within the evening, and therefore the unrelenting rain, the umpires and therefore the officers set to decision off the match once a wait of over 5 hours provided that the piece of land and therefore the weather showed no signs of improvement, and were under no circumstances fit play. a degree every means Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka and West Pakistan can quickly attain the third and fourth spots severally for the nonce, however can inevitably be toppled once the double-header on Saturday (June 8).

The Sri Lankan team can stay in urban center, set to play East Pakistan on Tuesday (June 11), whereas West Pakistan are going to be on their thanks to Taunton to play their next encounter against Australia on Wed (June 12).