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Afghanistan vs New Zealand Test Match: The only Test match between Afghanistan and New Zealand to be held in Greater Noida has been cancelled without a single ball being bowled due to heavy rain and wet outfield. Due to the cancellation, this match has registered another record in the history of Test cricket. For the first time in 91 years, a Test match on Indian soil has been cancelled without a single ball being bowled.
The match was scheduled to be played at the Shaheed Vijay Singh Pathik Stadium in Greater Noida but was abandoned without a single ball being bowled due to inconvenience and bad weather. India first hosted a Test match in 1933. Since then this is the first time that a Test match hosted by India has been abandoned without a single ball being bowled. So far only one match in Asia has been abandoned without a single ball being bowled. It happened in 1998 in a Test match between Pakistan and Zimbabwe in Faisalabad, Pakistan. In the history of cricket, only seven Test matches across the world have been abandoned without a single ball being bowled.
Afghanistan Cricket said in a statement, 'It is still raining in Greater Noida. The officials canceled the fifth and final day of the Afghanistan vs New Zealand Test due to continuous rain. Greater Noida has been raining continuously since last week. The match was not played on the first two days due to the outfield being wet due to drainage problems on the ground. Then the match had to be canceled without a single ball being bowled due to rain in the last three days as well.
This was the eighth such incident in the history of Test cricket when all five days of matches were cancelled due to lack of play. And this is the first such incident since 1998.
Test match abandoned without a single ball being bowled:
1. England v Australia, Manchester, 1890
2. England v Australia, Manchester, 1938
3. Australia v England, Melbourne, 1970
4. New Zealand v Pakistan, Dunedin, 1989
5. West Indies v England, Guyana, 1990
6. Pakistan v Zimbabwe, Faisalabad, 1998
7. New Zealand v India, Dunedin, 1998