The frustrating English weather finally caught up with the Indian team as their third World Cup game against New Zealand was called off without a ball being bowled Thursday. New Zealand have seven points from four games while India now have five from three with the next game against Pakistan in Manchester on Sunday. Incidentally, the weather Gods are threatening to play spoilsport over there too.
The toss was delayed due to inclement weather and in the end it never took place. An inspection was to happen at 3 pm IST, the scheduled start time, but was put off after it started raining again. The outfield was pretty wet after heavy showers in the past two days. The umpires had one last inspection at 7:30pm IST before taking the decision to abandon the match. This was the fourth such game in the ongoing tournament that has not yielded any result.
