Andre Fletcher had one of his better starts with the bat, scoring 14 from six balls, but rain allowed only six minutes of play in the third T20I at the Providence Stadium in Guyana before the umpires decided to call off the match, minutes before 14:22h, the cut-off time for a five-over contest.
Andre Fletcher had a good start
Two out of four matches of the series have now been washed out, and only one game is left in the series, which Pakistan lead 1-0.
West Indies had opted to bat first, with Evin Lewis missing out as a result of injury , Andre Russell returning, and Chris Gayle opening the batting in a T20 International for the first time since March 2019.
In the eight deliveries that were possible Fletcher found time to smack two sixes from the six balls he faced – one each from Mohammad Hafeez and Mohammad Wasim. Fletcher then walloped Hafeez over long-on, before swinging a Wasim delivery back over the bowler’s head. That turned out to be the final delivery before the heavens opened up again.
Rain stopped almost one-and-a-half hours later with the covers taken off soon after as prospects of a five or six-over shootout brightened. But an inspection 17 minutes prior to the cut-off time put paid to any hopes of play, with one part of the ground still relatively wet.
Players in discussion with match officials
The originally-scheduled five-match T20I leg of the tour, which first had one match shaved off owing to a non-playing player testing positive for COVID-19, is now down to one more game at the same ground on Tuesday.
