India v New Zealand: rain delay at Cricket World Cup 2019 – live!

Cricket World Cup 2019 updates from Trent BridgeCounty cricket – live! Follow all the latest newsFeel free to email Geoff or to tweet: @GeoffLemonSport 2.51pm BST Jack Jorgensen is an Australian living in southwest England, and writes in with some sensible meteorology. “The average rainfall figures are misleading. You want to consider average days of rain > 1mm. This is more useful as Australian rain in March is likely more intense, leading to less time actually raining. By my reckoning Sydney has 9.9 such days in March on average, and London 7.4. So whilst London has half as much average rainfall in volume, it’s likely spread out across more days, and hence the chance of rain affecting the play is not all that different. PS: thoughts on how happy this washout might make the Kiwis?”Quite so. But if the chance of rain is not all that different, it still derails the rather silly argument that we shouldn’t play cricket in England, the place where it was invented, in June, the month where more of it has been played than any other. 2.47pm BST And a couple more ticket price emails, which have some very useful detail. Thanks everyone. Starting with Andrew Cosgrove.“Prices for tickets were in line with perceived demand, so the most expensive matches were those involving England, India and Pakistan. On the other hand, I don’t think Ind vs Pak was any more expensive than Eng vs Anyone. There were about four bands of prices, with the lower one being cheap – tickets for £18 were available, mostly for games involving Afghanistan or Bangladesh. It doesn’t seem that unreasonable. India vs Pakistan was the most oversubscribed sporting event in this country since the 2012 Olympics, making the tickets cheaper just would have made it carnage.” Continue reading…
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