India vs New Zealand weather today | WTC Final 2021: India vs New Zealand ICC WTC Final 2021 Southampton weather forecast for 22 and 23 June

The World Test Championship final, which the fans were waiting for for a long time, did come, but remained as monotonous. The reason for this is rain. On Monday also, due to rain in Southampton, not a single ball could be bowled. Four days have passed since the start of the final but still no day’s play could go on continuously. Let us know how many overs have been lost so far, what are the rules regarding the reserve day and how will the weather be at this venue for the next two days.

Four days have passed since the final match of the ICC World Test Championship (WTC). Till now, 360 overs were to be played in this match but due to rain, 218.5 overs of the game has been washed away. The first and fourth days of the match were completely washed out. On the first day (June 18) of this final match, the situation was that even the toss could not be done.

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The umpires waited a long time for the fourth day’s play to begin. He announced the end of the game after waiting for five hours. The sixth day has been kept in reserve for this World Test Championship final, but no official announcement has been made by the International Cricket Council regarding this. Four days have passed since the match, i.e. Tuesday (22 June) will be its fifth day and if reserve-day is used, the match will be stretched till Wednesday. Despite this, the results are expected to be low. Because till now only India have played their first innings in which they got out after scoring 217 runs. After that, the Kiwi team, who came out to bat, scored 101 runs for 2 wickets, but after that the innings hanged in the balance.

How will the weather in Southampton be on June 22 and 23?

Rain was forecast for Monday in Southampton but it was much more than that and the whole day’s play was washed away. Now if the match goes after the fifth day till the possible sixth day (reserve-day), then all eyes will be on the weather once again. The weather has been predicted to be somewhat fair for the next two days but still it is difficult to say anything about the weather in England. There is no chance of much rain in Southampton on Tuesday (22 June), although it will be cloudy throughout the day. This will be the fifth day of the match in which the maximum temperature is expected to be 18 degree centigrade and the minimum temperature is 7 degree centigrade. On the other hand, if the game is held on reserve day i.e. on the sixth day (Wednesday), there is no chance of rain on this day and the maximum temperature will be 21 degree centigrade while the minimum temperature will be 10 degree centigrade. It will be interesting to see whether this great match yields any result or both the teams will have to be content with a draw.