Nepal Vs Sri Lanka Report, T20 World Cup: Match Called Off Due To Rain In Florida

The weather forecast for the match was not encouraging, and included a flash flood warning. Sure enough, it kept bucketing down at the Central Broward Regional Park Stadium Turf Ground and though the rain lightened later, it was too little, too late by then.

A minimum of five overs needed to be played by each team for the match to be deemed complete, but with no chance of that happening, the match was abandoned well before the cut-off time (10:48pm local and 8:18am IST).

Nepal will next take on South Africa and Bangladesh, and need to win both matches to have any chance of qualification for Super 8s. As for Sri Lanka, though they are virtually knocked out, Wanindu Hasaranga's team is mathematically still in contention and will next face Netherlands and hope Bangladesh lose to both Nepal and Netherlands, in order to stand a chance to qualify.

Meanwhile, the result meant that South Africa became the first team to officially qualify for the Super 8s.