Live Cricket Score - New Zealand vs Afghanistan, Match 21, ICC T20 World Cup 2022

That's all from us tonight. Join us back tomorrow for the triple-header from the SCG and in Perth. Until then, ciao!

This is inevitable, wasn't it? Hadn't stopped raining long enough, for the ground staff to do their thing, ever since England's chase got interrupted. England lost their two points to Ireland, and now New Zealand will have to split with Afghanistan. The group gets even more interesting!

Match abandoned, pings Ganesh.

21:04 Local Time, 15:34 IST: The cut-off time for a 5-over game is around 22:04 local time, for which ideally the rain needs to stop in the next 30 minutes or so. It's steady rain at the moment.

Not so good news from Ganesh. "More rain, ten mnutes before the scheduled inspection. They had just taken off he covers and put the stumps back on. It's very heavy now."

Next inspection is scheduled for 9 PM local time (3:30 PM IST).

Just FYI, we've begun to lose overs now.

Scratch that inspection update because Ganesh informs the covers are back on due to heavy rain.

19:51 Local Time, 14:21 IST: Ganesh informs: "Pitch inspection set to happen at 8pm local time, about 15 mins from now."

13:57 IST: Live visuals show that the covers are still on at the MCG

We continue to wait for a word...

All over for England. "Shaking hands", informs