Tribune News Service

Shimla, October 21

The much-anticipated India-New Zealand World Cup match at Dharamsala on Sunday is more likely to see rain interruption. The forecast is, nevertheless, for gentle to reasonable rain, which is unlikely to have an effect on the sport a lot.

“A western disturbance will hit the state tomorrow and we are expecting light rainfall at isolated places across the state,” mentioned an official, including there was a probability of rain in Dharamsala as nicely. “There could be rain anytime during the day. But it’s going to be a brief spell, about 5mm to 10mm,” he mentioned. “Also, the temporary spell is unlikely to vary the temperature an excessive amount of. Today, Dharamsala recorded a most temperature of 26.5 °Celsius and a minimal of 13.2 °Celsius.

The Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association, nevertheless, isn’t too apprehensive, because of its “world class drainage system”. “In case there’s a brief spell, there will not be much problem. Once the rain stops, we can get the ground ready for play within 10 to 15 minutes as we have a world class drainage system,” mentioned Mohit Sood, an HPCA official.

Sood mentioned the state-of-the-art drainage system absorbed extra water from the bottom, permitting the outfield to dry up in simply 10 to fifteen minutes. “In the last match between Australia and the Netherlands, the rain stopped around 3 pm. We had the ground ready immediately and only seven over per side were lost in that match,” added Sood.

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