GLOUCESTERSHIRE V SURREY -
Royal London One-Day Cup - 17 May 2017
Match abandoned without a ball being bowled.No
play was possible in the Royal London One-Day Cup South Group match
between Gloucestershire and Surrey at the Brightside Ground,
Bristol. The fixture ended up being flooded, rather than floodlit,
as incessant heavy rain throughout the morning and early afternoon
left numerous areas of casual water on the outfield. With Surrey
going into the game needing a victory to guarantee third place and
qualification for the quarter-finals, umpires Jeff Evans and Billy
Taylor delayed the abandonment for as long as possible. But there
was no let-up in the rain and after a 3pm inspection they decided
there was no chance of the ground drying out sufficiently. That left
Surrey hoping that Sussex, the one team with a chance of snatching
third place from them, would suffer a similar fate at Southampton
where prospects for play against Hampshire looked equally bleak.
Gloucestershire were already out of the battle for a place in the
knock-out phase.
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