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While bedewed outfield was the crushed down nary play connected Sunday, Bangladesh named their squad for the three-match T20I series. (PTI)
At 2 p.m. connected Sunday, lucifer referee Jeff Crowe called disconnected the 3rd day’s play of the 2nd Test betwixt India and Bangladesh. For 2 days successful a enactment astatine Green Park now, play has been suspended without a vessel being bowled. Ironically, seconds aft the umpires took the decision, the prima came out.
Day 3 started connected a affirmative enactment with each the covers being removed by 9 am. Being a Sunday, determination was a bully turnout of fans excessively and they welcomed the lucifer officials with rapturous applause. But promptly, lucifer referee Jeff Crowe on with the on-field umpires Chris Brown and Richard Kettleborough pointed retired damp areas astir the mid-off, cover, gully, archetypal and 2nd gaffe regions, each for a right-hander facing up to the media container end.
While doing their transportation report, Murali Kartik and Athar Ali Khan mentioned that determination are a fewer soggy patches adjacent the bowler’s run-up too, which is ne'er a bully motion for play to begin.
During the adjacent inspection astatine noon, the lucifer officials pointed retired a fewer much bedewed patches, including the signifier pitch, which was aboriginal covered by the groundsmen.
The Indian squad again preferred to enactment successful the edifice and didn’t question to the venue, portion the Bangladeshis turned up astir 1:40 pm. But 20 minutes aboriginal the time was called off.
Kanpur: Match officials inspect the crushed astatine the Green Park Stadium connected the 3rd time of the 2nd trial cricket lucifer betwixt India and Bangladesh, successful Kanpur, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024. A bedewed outfield owed to overnight rainfall has delayed the commencement of play connected time 3 of the lucifer connected Sunday. (PTI Photo/Vijay Verma)
Bangladesh was astatine 107/3 successful its archetypal innings, with each 35 overs bowled connected a rain-truncated opening day. Rain and a bedewed outfield had meant that time 2 was besides abandoned without a shot being bowled. India won the archetypal trial successful Chennai by 280 runs to pb the two-match series.
On Day 2, rainfall stopped raining astatine 10 americium but play was called disconnected astatine 2 pm. On Day 3, determination was not a azygous driblet of rainfall but the dampness successful the outfield owed to mediocre outfield the play was abandoned without a shot being bowled.
According to the upwind reports, determination is nary rainfall prediction of rain, which means determination is simply a accidental of having immoderate cricketing enactment aft 2 afloat days of nary play. But a effect present seems improbable.
Mehidy returns for Bangladesh successful T20Is
Meanwhile, Bangladesh announced their 15-member squad for the three-match T20I bid and all-rounder Mehedi Hasan Miraz made a instrumentality to the T20I broadside aft a 14-month hiatus. The 3 T20Is volition beryllium played successful Gwalior, Delhi, and Hyderabad connected October 6, 9 and 12 respectively.
Squad
Najmul Hossain Shanto (Captain), Tanzid Hasan Tamim, Parvez Hossain Emon, Tawhid Hridoy, Mahmud Ullah, Litton Kumer Das, Jaker Ali Anik, Mehidy Hassan Miraz, Shak Mahedi Hasan, Rishad Hossain, Mustafizur Rahman, Taskin Ahmed, Shoriful Islam, Tanzim Hasan Sakib, Rakibul Hasan.
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