Published: 25 Aug 2014 - 09:32 pm | Last Updated: 21 Jan 2022 - 01:14 pm
Covers protect the square from rain at the County Ground in Bristol yesterday. The opening one-day international in a five-match series between England and India was abandoned without a ball being bowled in Bristol yesterday due to heavy rain. Umpires made the decision to cancel the game after downpours throughout the night and morning left standing water on the outfield. This meant that hard-hitting Nottinghamshire opening batsman Alex Hales’s one-day international debut was put on hold. Hales has appeared in 32 Twenty20s for England and scored his country’s first century in cricket’s shortest format when he made 116 not out from 64 balls against Sri Lanka at the World Twenty20 in March.
