Southampton: In a piece of disappointing news coming across for the cricket-loving fans, the start of the World Test Championship Fial has been delayed due to continuous rainfall in Southampton. Many fans and former cricketers were waiting for this grand event as the match will decide the champion of world Test cricket.
A tournament that will further give context to Test cricket. Test series' that were being played in isolation, will have a larger motive, that of the World Test Championship final. All this excitement turned into frustration as the toss was delayed due to a continuous downpour in Southampton.
These fans will have to wait a little longer as the first session was completely washed out due to rain. Although the umpires will inspect the field at 5 pm IST, desperate Twitteratis had a funny view of the entire situation.
Many fans shared memes and tried to reduce the frustration:
We will keep you posted about India Vs New Zealand's latest updates. Meanwhile, the downpour continues at the Ageas Bowl. The conditions do not look good for play on Day-1. Looks like, the reserved day might come into effect if we lose the entire day's play.
India had declared their playing XI before and decided to go with 2 spinners and 3 pacers.
India Playing XI for WTC Final 2021: Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli (c), Ajinkya Rahane, Rishabh Pant (wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ishant Sharma, Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah