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India Vs Canada, T20 World Cup 2024 Highlights: Waiting Game Ends - Match Called Off Due To Wet Outfield

India vs Canada, T20 World Cup 2024 Highlights: India's final Group A match against Canada in Florida was abandoned without a single ball being bowled due to a wet outfield. Rain before the scheduled toss caused the initial delay. Despite several inspections and a one-hour extension, the umpires ultimately decided to call off the match. Rohit Sharma led-India move forward to Super 8s being unbeaten in group stage. Meanwhile, Pakistan, Canada, and Ireland have been eliminated from the group stage

Virat Kohli's form will be in focus in India vs Canada T20 World Cup 2024 match AP/Adam Hunger
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India Vs Canada, T20 World Cup 2024, Saturday, June 15: Highlights

India's final Group A match against Canada in Florida was abandoned without a single ball being bowled due to a wet outfield. Rain before the scheduled toss caused the initial delay. Despite several inspections and a one-hour extension, the umpires ultimately decided to call off the match. Rohit Sharma led-India move forward to Super 8s, being unbeaten in group stage. Meanwhile, Pakistan, Canada, and Ireland have been eliminated from the group stage.

Squads

India T20 World Cup Squad: Rohit Sharma (c), Hardik Pandya (vc), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant (wk), Sanju Samson (wk), Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohd. Siraj

Reserves: Shubman Gill, Rinku Singh, Khaleel Ahmed and Avesh Khan

Canada T20 World Cup Squad: Saad Bin Zafar (c), Aaron Johnson, Dilon Heyliger, Dilpreet Bajwa, Rishiv Joshi, Jeremy Gordon, Junaid Siddiqui, Kaleem Sana, Kanwarpal Tathgur (wk), Navneet Dhaliwal, Nicholas Kirton, Pargat Singh, Ravinderpal Singh, Rayyankhan Pathan, Shreyas Movva (wk)

Florida Weather

The state of Florida is seeing heavy rains for the past few days with some areas also getting flooded.

The forecast of Lauderhill for Saturday, June 15 says: Rather cloudy and humid with a couple of showers and a thunderstorm, mainly later.

Toss Update: Toss Delayed Due To Wet Outfield

The inspection is going on, umpires, Richard Kettleborough and Sharfuddoula - are walking out for the inspection. The pitch and square is still under covers. 

Next Inspection At 9:00PM IST

Pitches remain covered, the next inspection will be at 11:30am local time, 9:00pm IST. Rishabh Pant is signing autographs for the fans.

Oh No! We All Know What's Coming, Don't We?

The match has been abandoned. India remains unbeaten as their T20 World Cup 2024 match against Canada in Lauderhill, Florida ends in abandonment without a single ball bowled on Saturday.

Canada Eliminated

This game's abandonment means, Canada are now eliminated from the T20 World Cup along with Pakistan and Ireland.

Good Night

That's all from us tonight, we will see you all soon.