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The lucifer is owed to statesman astatine 09:00 BSTEngland's highly-anticipated Men's T20 World Cup lucifer against Australia successful Melbourne has been delayed by rain.
A decision for either broadside successful the match, for which a assemblage of implicit 60,000 is expected, would permission their hopes successful the tourney hanging by a thread.
But persistent rainfall passim the time successful Melbourne has already washed retired Ireland's brushwood with Afghanistan.
The flip for England's lucifer was owed astatine 08:30 BST but is yet to instrumentality place, portion play was owed to commencement astatine 09:00.
The outfield astatine the Melbourne Cricket Ground is precise bedewed meaning adjacent if the rainfall stops determination is existent uncertainty whether the crushed volition beryllium successful a acceptable authorities for play successful time.
The shortest imaginable crippled allowed successful the regulations is simply a five-over per broadside contest.
If the crippled is not played England and Australia would some inactive beryllium capable to advancement but Group 1 would beryllium wide open.
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