Live Score

3:15 PM IST and Local Time: The covers are being lifted by the groundstaff. The movement of the Super Sopper on the covers earlier has removed the excess water from the covers. Now, the groundsmen remove the white sheet from one of the bowler's run-ups. And guess what? They move that cover to one of the squares. Okay! The main cover has been peeled off.

Plenty of activities on the ground. The next layer that covered the pitch has been removed as well. A thin final layer of cover from the pitch has been slowly removed now. The cover from the other bowler's run-up area has been taken off. Floodlights are on. Clouds are hovering as well. 

3:25 PM IST and Local Time: Most of the covers have been removed. Curator and a couple of others are examining the pitch. Two super soppers are working hard. We might have a shortened game but surely not many overs being lost.

3:31 PM IST and Local Time: The main cover has been brought back and the groundstaff have cemented it on one side of the squares. Hang on! They are folding it and folding it... Let us leave that work for them. One side of the squares is still having that white sheet laid. Super Sopper is moving on it. And now, that white sheet has been taken off before they align it at the bowler's run-up. All these are the drills to fold the covers. Groundstaff are working really hard to get things underway as soon as possible.

3:39 PM IST and Local Time: Sawdust and sand have been applied on either side of the pitch. Groundsmen mark the crease.

3:54 PM IST and Local Time: Drizzling again! The covers are back on. Groundstaff are quick to cover the pitch, squares, and bowlers' run-up areas. But the Super Soppers are still hovering doing their work. It has gone quite dark as well. Not a heavy drizzle at the moment as it is just small droplets that are falling down. And finally, the weights are brought to keep the covers intact. And as we mentioned earlier, the tyres have been used as weights.

4:02 PM IST and Local Time: Now, it has become a bit heavier. No one on the outfield! 

4:04 PM IST and Local Time: Match Abandoned! No warm-up games for India! They will straightaway play Australia on 8th October 2023 at Chennai. Netherlands will play Pakistan in their World Cup opener on 6th October 2023 at Hyderabad. Rain has the final say in matches at Thiruvananthapuram. There was a hope when the rain was cleared for about an hour but once it came back, it didn't give any chance as the match officials decided to abandon the game. 

I am AkshayaKrishna Polya signing off on behalf of my co-commentator Akshay Bhide, who, alongside our scorer/analyst Raju Khariya brought you all the live-action/updates of this final warm-up game for these two sides. Well, a couple of warm-up games are going on in different parts of India, and switch the tabs to follow the live-action. For now, it's ta-ta bye-bye!