Eng vs WI 2nd Test: Rain washes out Day 3 in Manchester

Not even a single delivery could be bowled in the session as rain forced players to stay inside their respective dressing rooms.

Manchester: Rain continued to play spoilsport as the entire third day of the second #raisethebat Test between England and West Indies was washed out at Old Trafford in Manchester on Saturday.

• Day three of the second #ENGvWI Test has been abandoned due to rain 🌧️
  
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  Day three of the second #ENGvWI Test has been abandoned due to rain 🌧️
  
  Windies will resume tomorrow on 32/1 in their first innings. pic.twitter.com/nrMSTnecVo

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  Day three of the second #ENGvWI Test has been abandoned due to rain 🌧️
  
  Windies will resume tomorrow on 32/1 in their first innings. pic.twitter.com/nrMSTnecVo

  — ICC (@ICC) July 18, 2020

Not even a single delivery could be bowled in the day as rain forced players to stay inside their respective dressing rooms.

Sam Curran

There was no change in the overnight scoreboard as West Indies still trail by 437 runs in the first innings. The visitors had lost the wicket of John Campbell before stumps on Day 2 and they remain at 32/1 with Kraigg Brathwaite and night watchman Alzarri Joseph in the middle.

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This after all-rounder Ben Stokes and batsman Dominic Sibley slammed respective centuries and put on a mammoth 260-run stand, before the hosts declared for 469/9.

• 1️⃣7️⃣6️⃣ runs
  3️⃣5️⃣6️⃣ balls
  1️⃣7️⃣ fours
  2️⃣ sixes
  
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  1️⃣7️⃣6️⃣ runs
  3️⃣5️⃣6️⃣ balls
  1️⃣7️⃣ fours
  2️⃣ sixes
  
  How good was Ben Stokes' innings? 🔥 🔥 🔥 #ENGvWIpic.twitter.com/pfB2P0KWVq

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  1️⃣7️⃣6️⃣ runs
  3️⃣5️⃣6️⃣ balls
  1️⃣7️⃣ fours
  2️⃣ sixes
  
  How good was Ben Stokes' innings? 🔥 🔥 🔥 #ENGvWIpic.twitter.com/pfB2P0KWVq

  — ICC (@ICC) July 17, 2020

Brief Scores: West Indies 32/1 (Joseph 14*; Curran 1/8) vs England 469/9 (Stokes 176, Sibley 120; Chase 5/172)