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India skipper Harmanpreet Kaur and South Africa skipper Laura Wolvaardt (Pic credit: BCCI Women)
NEW DELHI: Cricket fans crossed India are holding their enactment — not conscionable for the high-stakes ICC Women’s World Cup last betwixt India and South Africa astatine the Dr DY Patil Stadium successful Navi Mumbai connected Sunday, but besides for the unpredictable Mumbai skies.
While Harmanpreet Kaur’s squad stands connected the brink of history, rainfall could yet play spoilsport successful what promises to beryllium a blockbuster rubric clash.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!According to the latest forecast, there’s a 25–50% accidental of showers done the day and evening. The humidity is expected to stay high, and adaptable cloudiness could effect successful stop-start conditions during play. The mercury is apt to interaction 34°C, dropping to 25°C astatine night.
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However, fans tin instrumentality comfortableness successful the information that the International Cricket Council (ICC) has made provisions to guarantee the last produces a just result. A reserve time has been kept speech for the rubric clash — scheduled for Monday, November 3 — if rainfall prevents play connected Sunday.If the skies unfastened up during the match, officials volition effort to implicit the crippled connected the aforesaid day, adjacent if it means reducing overs. As per ICC rules, some teams indispensable play a minimum of 20 overs each to represent a result.
If that’s not possible, the lucifer volition proceed from the nonstop constituent wherever it stopped connected the reserve day.Here’s however it works:
- If rainfall interrupts play and the crippled can’t beryllium completed connected Sunday, it resumes connected Monday from the aforesaid situation.
- If a truncated lucifer resumes and is halted again, the reduced overs volition transportation implicit to the reserve day.
- And if the reserve time is besides washed out, India and South Africa volition stock the trophy arsenic associated winners — a archetypal successful Women’s World Cup history.
With a grounds assemblage expected and some teams chasing a maiden title, the stakes couldn’t beryllium higher. Harmanpreet Kaur’s side, caller from a thrilling semi-final triumph implicit seven-time champions Australia, volition look to prehend the infinitesimal — provided the upwind gods enactment benignant successful Navi Mumbai.For now, each eyes are connected the skies, arsenic cricket and rainfall hole for a tense duel alongside India and South Africa’s day with destiny.
