The marquee event of the ICC T20 World Cup 2024, India vs Pakistan is underway in New York. It is the eighth meeting between the two sides in T20 World Cups, with India having the upper hand with six victories.
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The match is being played at the Nassau County International Cricket Stadium under overcast conditions of New York. The toss for the game was already delayed by a few minutes due to rain in New York, and there’s a chance that the weather will play a spoilsport once again.
With rain and weather-related delays being unpredictable, ICC’s priority is to make sure a complete 40-over game is played.
For this purpose, ICC has kept a one hour buffer time in case of rains for group games in the T20 World Cup.
But for India vs Pakistan clash especially, the ICC has decided to extend the buffer time to 90 minutes, allotting a full 1.5 hours incase of rain delay and before the reduction of overs start.
In short, the match can be delayed by 1.5 hours due to rain before overs are reduced.
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Unfortunately, there is no reserve day for any of the group stage and super eight games in the 2024 ICC T20 World Cup including the marquee clash between India and Pakistan.
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Reserve days have been allotted only for the knockout games of the competition that are to be held in the West Indies, except for the second semi-final in Guyana which will be having an extra time of around 250 minutes, since the reserve day will clash with the day of the final.
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Rahul is a content producer for The Sporting News’ India edition.
