There was no play on Day 4 of the WTC closing as rain performed spoilsport but once more.© AFP
Rain meant there was no play in any respect in Monday’s fourth day of the World Test Championship final between India and New Zealand at Southampton — the second time within the match a day’s play had been washed out and not using a ball bowled. Overnight and early morning rain meant the pitch and sq. at Hampshire’s headquarters remained totally coated when the match ought to have resumed at 10:30 am native time (0930 GMT). Play was lastly deserted for the day at 3:00 pm (1400 GMT), with Friday’s first day having suffered an analogous destiny.
Match referee Chris Broad, nevertheless, has a particular dispensation to increase this closing right into a sixth day — males’s Tests normally solely final a most of 5 days — if he feels that can compensate for time misplaced within the sport.
An absorbing day of high-quality cricket on Sunday, lower quick by dangerous mild regardless of the usage of the Hampshire Bowl’s floodlights, ended with New Zealand 101-2 in reply to India’s first innings 217 — a deficit of 116 runs.
New Zealand’s Kyle Jamieson took a formidable 5-31 in 22 overs — the towering paceman’s fifth five-wicket haul in simply eight profession Tests.
Blackcaps opener Devon Conway fell for 54 two balls earlier than the shut.
It was his third rating of over fifty in simply 5 Test innings following the 29-year-old South Africa-born left-hander’s gorgeous 200 on his debut towards England at Lord’s this month.
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India, as New Zealand had achieved after profitable the toss, bowled nicely in useful circumstances with quick bowler Ishant Sharma having figures of 1-19 in 12 overs at Sunday’s shut and off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin 1-20 in 12.
This match, the fruits of the inaugural World Test Championship that has spanned two years of sequence between the main Test nations, is price $1.6 million to the winners and $800,000 to the runners-up.
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