All the cricket matches in Ireland, South Africa and West Indies have been halted due to rain. No wonder cricket is not a popular sport even after 200 years. Its high time something is done about the weather interventions. How can we expect countries like China, Americas Europe or other middle Eastern countries to adopt the game.

@karachi Wally Its not only Cricket that was affected by adverse weather, many other activities needed to be rescheduled due to excessive precipitation. Its just the way it is where there is abundance of rain. Only entity that can intervene when it comes to natural phenomena like weather is God (start praying) or roof over the stadiums. As for the Cricket popularity; its already being played in Europe and Americas albeit its not as popular as other sports like Football, Rugby etc. I think we should be more concerned by lack of home games in Pakistan rather than popularity of the game in China. We should protest that we as a country are being deprived of the game, that we love, on security grounds so much so that even our PSL has adopted UAE as its home base; Go Figure.

@karachi Wally. Agreed! If other sports like American football can be played in controlled environment why not cricket?

So rain abandoned the match or was the match abandoned due to rain?

hah hah.painful moment,s for cricket lovers.pakistan keeep it,s momentum continue to restrick england.because england track record at home outstanding like india.we know they can,t play with us at neutral point. if you don,t believe you will see the tour of england in india coming soon.result will 4-0 in test and 4-1 in ODI.