Persistent rain on Saturday washed out the World Cup warm-up match between India and England at Guwahati’s Barsapara Cricket Stadium.
It started raining a bit of earlier than the beginning of the match on Saturday afternoon, which resulted within the toss being delayed. Later within the night, the umpires determined to desert the competition, a bit of earlier than 6 pm native time owing to inclement climate.
All 10 groups will get to play two warm-up matches every earlier than the group stage of the 50-over World Cup which will get underway in Ahmedabad on October 5.
England will face New Zealand within the World Cup opener.
The defending champions, who arrived in India a day earlier than their first warm-up match, will stay in Guwahati to play their second and closing warm-up sport towards Bangladesh on October 2.
However, India, who travelled to Guwahati on Thursday after finishing a 2-1 collection win over Australia, will now fly to Thiruvananthapuram for his or her second warm-up match towards the Netherlands on October 3.
The nice and cozy-up matches started on Friday with Sri Lanka struggling a seven-wicket defeat by the hands of Bangladesh right here, whereas New Zealand defeated Pakistan in a high-scoring contest in Hyderabad.
The nice and cozy-up matches are being performed at three venues Guwahati, Thiruvananthapuram and Hyderabad.
