‘Sun holds up play’ isn’t a feature for the most part connected with cricket however that was the situation amid the first ODI between New Zealand and India at the McLean Park in Napier.
In the tenth over of India’s pursuit, an over after the supper break, there was a stoppage of play for 30 minutes because of the setting sun which was specifically in the batsman’s viewable pathway. Shikhar Dhawan, the batsman on hit had a word with the umpires, who at that point chose to stop play until the point when the sun set thinking about player security. An over was lost because of the deferral in resumption, with India being set a reexamined focus of 156 from 49 overs.
Cricket contributes are typically situated a North-South heading however the East-West confronting Napier pitch prompted this issue. “The setting sun is specifically according to the batsmen. So we got the opportunity to think about the wellbeing of the players, umpires. So we have chosen to suspend play until the point when conditions move forward. This is the first run through in my 14 years I have witnessed something like this on a cricket field,” said umpire Shaun George.
This isn’t the first occasion when that Napier confronted such a circumstance with the ‘sunstrike’ causing an interference. Prior this month, on January 19, the Super Smash coordinate between Central Districts and Canterbury had a short stoppage in play because of the sun while a T20I between New Zealand and Bangladesh in January 2017 was additionally held up because of a similar reason.
The sun getting in the eye of the batsman has likewise occurred in other cricket matches – an ODI among Pakistan and New Zealand in Gujranwala in December 1996, the ,main day of the Old Trafford Test among England and WI in 1995 and a Friends Provident amusement among Derbyshire and Nottighamshire in June 2006 being a couple of other such examples.