Bristol: 2019 World Cup match between Sri Lanka and Bangladesh has been abandoned due to rain here at County Ground on Tuesday. Points have been divided between two sides.
With this, three matches have been called off in a week, making it officially the World Cup with the most number of matches washed out.
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As per the weather forecast, Wednesday's Australia vs Pakistan could also become a victim of rain.
Umpire Richard Kettleborough: "Our main objective is to try and get the game as soon as possible, but if anything, the rain has only gotten harder as the day went on. We have our set protocols and we had to get the game going by 16:17 local, but the groundsman said that we need around two-and-a-half to three hours to get the ground ready once it stopped raining, but it just hasn't."
Bangladesh skipper Mashrafe Mortaza: "For all the teams, coming to the ground and not playing is disappointing and frustrating. This is how the tournament is going, we got our chances against New Zealand, we couldn't get going in the England match, but it was frustrating today. I think Shakib will be fine. He still has four-five days to recover. Taunton, yes, is a very small ground, and especially against West Indies it isn't going to be easy. But we don't have much of an option apart from playing hard."
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Sri Lanka skipper Dimuth Karunaratne: "The last few games have been washed out, so these kind of tournaments isn't easy. It is a bad time for us. We just play some cards, but it isn't easy, we have to switch on and off all the time. These kind of things can happen but we have to get used to it. We can keep practicing and train harder for the Australia game. Definitely in every match we need to play for a win. The middle-order is trying to play hard and prove their worth, hopefully in the next game."
