{"id":439008,"date":"2026-02-22T03:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T03:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/439008\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T03:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T03:49:12","slug":"pakistan-new-zealand-super-eights-opener-abandoned-at-t20-world-cup-icc-mens-t20-world-cup-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/439008\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan-New Zealand Super Eights opener abandoned at T20 World Cup | ICC Men’s T20 World Cup News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Persistent rain in Colombo forces abandonment of Pakistan\u2019s game with New Zealand, which was to open Super Eights stage.<\/p>\n

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Pakistan and New Zealand\u2019s Super Eights match to open the second phase of the 2026 T20 World Cup was abandoned<\/a> because of rain without a ball being bowled.<\/p>\n

The rain started at Colombo\u2019s R Premadasa Stadium as soon as Pakistan captain Salman Ali Agha won the toss and chose to bat first on Saturday.<\/p>\n

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The post-toss interviews were completed, but with the forecast suggesting the game would be in doubt, there was little surprise when the teams ran for cover.<\/p>\n

More than 60 ground staff were on hand to cover the square and the majority of the playing surface.<\/p>\n

The persistent rain eventually led to the umpires calling the Group 2 match off at 9:05pm local time (15:35 GMT).<\/p>\n

Not even a five-over match was possible by the 10:16 pm (16:46 GMT) cut-off time, giving the two teams one point each.<\/p>\n

Tournament co-host India plays South Africa<\/a> in Ahmedabad in the first Group 1 match on Sunday, when co-host Sri Lanka and England meet in Group 2 in Pallekele.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Persistent rain in Colombo forces abandonment of Pakistan\u2019s game with New Zealand, which was to open Super Eights…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1487,1296,1721,48795,308,620,50,2321,217,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-439008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-asia","tag-asia-pacific","tag-cricket","tag-icc-mens-t20-world-cup","tag-india","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-pakistan","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439008","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=439008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}