Why Indian Cricket Fans are Frantically Googling Southampton and Manchester's Weather
Cricket World Cup 2019 weather forecast: latest Southampton mario venditti outlook for England vs West Indies – and this week’s other host grounds
The miserable British weather is beginning to play havoc with the Cricket World Cup, with a record four matches already completely abandoned because of rain.
While supporters across the country expected to be sipping jugs of ice cold Pimm’s, applying layer upon layer of sun cream and watching the world’s best cricketers ply their trade this month, many have instead been forced to sip warming cups of tea, don rain jackets and watch groundstaff apply waterproof covers.
South Africa’s clash with the West Indies was abandoned after just 45 balls on Monday while Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh on Tuesday and New Zealand vs India on Thursday were both total washouts.
We did get a decent day’s play between Australia and Pakistan in Taunton on Wednesday and with a packed schedule over the weekend cricket fans everywhere will be hoping for more sun.
The monsoon in England has successfully washed out four games in the ICC Cricket World Cup and we aren't even halfway through the tournament. The Internet has already awarded Man of the Series to the groundsmen doing the aftermath cleanup, while Twitter has put English rains right on top of the points table and awarded it 8 points for playing the perfect spoilsport.
Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka, West Indies v South Africa, and Sri Lanka vs Pakistan - all have gone down the clarke drain without a ball being bowled.
But all hell broke loose on Twitter when India and New Zealand's match on Thursday became the victim of incessant downpour in Nottingham, Trent Bridge.
Following this, Indian Twitterati came down hard upon ICC, suggesting and questioning the cricket body's decision for keeping a premium tournament in the gloomy and wet conditions of England. #ShameOnICC became the top trend on the microblogging site on Friday.
But does it stop there? Nope.
Quite understandably, cricket loving cliftonville vs dungannon swifts fans, especially millions back in India, want action on the cricket ground and their television sets to take place.
So it doesn't come as a surprise that Indians (and others) are frantically googling the Friday match's venue - Southampton, as they pray to witness England taking on the West Indies at the Rose Bowl.
