A third day of play is abandoned in the Afghanistan-New Zealand cricket test

GREATER NOIDA, India (AP) — Play in the one-off cricket test between Afghanistan and New Zealand was abandoned without a ball bowled for a third consecutive day because of rain or a wet outfield.

Rain overnight left umpires with little choice Wednesday, with no chance for the soggy outfield to improve sufficiently to allow play even if conditions improved.

Afghanistan is staging the match near India’s capital because it cannot host international cricket on home soil. So far, the weather hasn’t allowed any play at all on the first three of five scheduled days in the test.

The region around Delhi has received incessant rainfall for the last 10 days.

The toss has been rescheduled to 9 a.m. Thursday, weather allowing.

This is Afghanistan’s third cricket test in 2024, following one-off matches against Ireland and Sri Lanka.

For New Zealand, the match was supposed to kick off a three-month tour of the subcontinent.

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