{"id":438907,"date":"2026-02-22T02:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T02:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/438907\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T02:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T02:19:08","slug":"t20-world-cup-new-zealand-vs-pakistan-match-abandoned-because-of-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/438907\/","title":{"rendered":"T20 World Cup: New Zealand vs Pakistan match abandoned because of rain"},"content":{"rendered":"

The opening match of the T20 World Cup’s Super Eight stage between New Zealand and Pakistan in Colombo has been abandoned without a ball bowled because of rain.<\/p>\n

Spectators arriving at the R Premadasa Stadium found the field under cover after precipitation in the afternoon, but conditions improved enough for a toss to be staged on time, with Pakistan winning and choosing to bat.<\/p>\n

However the rain set in prior to the start of play and umpires called off the game just over two hours after its scheduled start time, with both sides taking a point for a no result.<\/p>\n

Rain blighted fixtures held in the Sri Lankan capital<\/a> during October’s Women’s World Cup, held during the island’s monsoon season, with seven of 11 matches held there affected by the weather.<\/p>\n

This is only the second abandoned match of this tournament, after Ireland’s game with Zimbabwe in Pallekele was called off on Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Both New Zealand and Pakistan finished second in the group stage, winning three fixtures and losing against their pool winners, South Africa and India respectively.<\/p>\n

The tournament resumes on Sunday with England playing Sri Lanka in Pallekele (09:30 GMT) before India face South Africa in Ahmedabad (13:30 GMT).<\/p>\n

Pakistan will hope for better weather when they face England on Tuesday, while New Zealand will resume their campaign on Wednesday against Sri Lanka in Colombo (both matches 13:30 GMT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The opening match of the T20 World Cup’s Super Eight stage between New Zealand and Pakistan in Colombo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-438907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}