Afghanistan Vs New Zealand 2024 Greater Noida one-off Test: Teams could break 91-year old record after Day 4 is washed out too
All four days of the one-off Test match between Afghanistan and New Zealand at the Greater Noida Sports Complex have been washed out without a ball getting bowled.
Afghanistan and New Zealand may maybe create a dubious record come Friday (September thirteen) on Day 5 of their one-off Test match at the Greater Noida Sports Complex stadium. With Day four of the sport also getting washed out without a ball being bowled on Thursday morning, Afghanistan and New Zealand may maybe set an unwanted record on the ultimate day of the sport.
Afghanistan and New Zealand may maybe break a ninety one year old record of a Test match in Asia getting abandoned without a ball getting bowled in any of the 5 days. At some point of this era, 730 Test matches have taken place and none of them have witnessed the same fate.
The closest any team has come used to be back in Pakistan in 1998 when entire Test used to be abandoned without a single ball getting bowled in Faisalabad attributable to fog. The toss used to be scheduled to take place at 9am but persistent rain continued to play spoilsport because the match officials is legendary as off the day’s play for the fourth day in succession.
Day 1 – Is named Off.
Day 2 – Is named Off.
Day three – Is named Off.
Day four – Is named Off.– The story of the Afghanistan Vs New Zealand Test match in Noida. percenttwitter.com/Nwtq6KigHL
— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) September 12, 2024
“The fourth day of worthwhile Test match between Afghanistan and New Zealand teams is likewise no longer going to be played attributable to continued rainfall,” the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) said in a press release on Thursday.
“The choice about the starting place of the sport tomorrow to come again morning at eight:00 will likely be made after the stadium assessment,” the ACB added.
Now not a single ball has been bowled across four days with the wet outfield preventing any action on the hole two days, raising serious questions over the preparedness of the venue to host the match. Most effective seven matches the total way all through the history of Test cricket have been abandoned without a ball being bowled.
The last time it came about used to be the total way all through the match between New Zealand and India at Dunedin in 1998, which used to be outside Asia. Afghanistan are the hosts of the sport and had picked the venue attributable to logistical reasons.
It really is a long way their tenth match since receiving Test status from ICC in 2017. Afghanistan are playing against New Zealand the total way all through the Test format for the first time. However it surely, this match just isn't any longer element of the ICC’s World Test Championship (WTC) cycle.
New Zealand will fly out to Sri Lanka next for a two-Test series ahead of returning to India for three Tests, starting on October sixteen at Bengaluru.
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