Pak versus Eng: Match resumes after downpour delay

 Pak versus Eng: Match resumes after downpour delay

SOUTHAMPTON: Play in the fifth and last day of the second Test among England and Pakistan in Southampton on Monday is set to get going at 3:20 pm nearby time (1420 GMT) after a match tormented by terrible climate was hindered by another downpour delay. 

Just 96.2 overs have been bowled so far in a Test that has since quite a while ago seemed bound for a draw, with England 7-1 in answer to Pakistan's first innings 236. 

Be that as it may, following Monday's fifth examination by umpires Michael Gough and Richard Kettleborough, it was declared the match would restart with a base 56 overs to be bowled. 

                                        

The most recent hour will begin at 6:00 pm (1700 GMT) or after 41 overs, whichever is the later. 

'Not motivation to stroll off' 

While the umpires have confronted far reaching analysis for their severe translation of the guidelines with respect to both downpour and terrible light even on a ground where the floodlights have been being used — previous England chief Nasser Hussain revealed to Sky Sports "just on the grounds that conditions are not perfect isn't motivation to stroll off the field" — there was little they could do about an early morning storm Monday that soaked the Ageas Bowl's outfield. 

However, there was discernibly greater movement by both the authorities and groundstaff on Monday in a match where such a large number of standard principles and guidelines have been deserted to make a 'bio-secure' bubble that sees the two groups remaining in on location inns and not permitted to utilize salivation to sparkle the ball as they attempt to make preparations for the danger of the coronavirus. 

Pakistan hit with simply the fourth bundle of England's answer on Sunday when left-arm brisk Shaheen Afridi had Rory Burns gotten at second slip for a duck with a fine conveyance that swung and seamed. 

Dom Sibley (two not out) and Zak Crawley (five not out), reviewed instead of Ben Stokes after the all-rounder pulled back to be with his evil dad in New Zealand, both battled against Afridi and the exact Mohammad Abbas in cloudy, bowler-accommodating conditions, before the umpires took the players off the field. 

Typically, the Ageas Bowl, the base camp of south coast province Hampshire, was washed in daylight not long after it was reported play had been deserted for the day at 3:51 pm (1451 GMT). 

Pakistan were obliged to wicketkeeper Mohammad Rizwan, who top-scored with 72 and shepherded the tail past 200 after Abid Ali (60) and Babar Azam (47) had made helpful runs in extreme conditions. 

Rizwan batted for three and three-quarter hours across four days, confronting 139 balls with seven limits during his second fifty of every eight vocation Tests following the 95 he made against Australia in Brisbane in November. 

Stuart Broad drove England's assault with 4-56, an arrival that took the in-structure paceman's count in four Tests this season to 26 wickets at a stingy normal of 12.38. 

Britain are 1-0 up in a three-coordinate arrangement after a three-wicket win in the main Test at Old Trafford prior this month. 

The third Test, likewise at Southampton, begins on Friday.