Rain might strike South Africa vs Australia World Cup 2023 semis in Kolkata. (Photo: AP)
There is some problem for cricket fans as the 2nd semifinal of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 in between South Africa and Australia may be struck by rain at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Thursday. The city has actually been experiencing rain over the last couple of days and the MET department is anticipating damp weather condition on both match day on Thursday along with the ‘Reserve Day’ on Friday.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) have actually currently revealed the arrangement of a ‘Reserve Day’ for all the knockout matches on the planet Cup 2023. The ‘Reserve Day’ guidelines will begin if minimum of 20 overs are not possible on the match day.
The groups will start the match where it was disrupted on ‘Reserve Day’. If play is not possible on ‘Reserve Day’ also then South Africa will sign up with Team India on the planet Cup 2023 last on Sunday given that they completed above Australia in the league phase Points Table.
According to the MET department, the optimum temperature level will be around 29 degrees Celsius when skippers Pat Cummins and Temba Bavuma head out for consider 130pm IST on Thursday. The humidity will be around 69 percent with 100 percent cloud cover and a minimum of 25 percent possibility of rain.
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By Thursday night, the temperature level will dip to around 24 degrees however humidity will be increasing to around 84 percent with 100 percent cloud cover over the ground and 25 percent possibilities of rain. The projection for the ‘Reserve Day’ on Friday is even worse than Thursday.
According to MET projection, there is at least 75 percent possibilities of rain in Kolkata on Friday with around 14.8 mm of rain forecasted in the city. If the match heads into ‘Reserve Day’ there is not likely to be much play on Friday and South Africa will have the edge over Australia and go into Sunday’s last to deal with Team India.
Australia skipper Pat Cummins stated in the pre-match interview on Wednesday that the group were anticipating to play a complete match on Thursday. “We’ll show up anticipating to play a 50-over match tomorrow. If that shifts on us, we can change as required. It seems like it hasn’t truly drizzled here for the last number of months, so to see the weather condition appearing like that for 2 days is not perfect,” Cummins stated.