Play was halted 15 minutes before the scheduled tea break on Sunday due to fading light, gentle rain and lightning protocols
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Frustrated Cricket Australia boss Todd Greenberg vowed on Monday to take up “archaic” bad light rules with the sport’s governing body after a third of the opening day at the fifth Ashes Test was lost.
Play was halted 15 minutes before the scheduled tea break on Sunday due to fading light, gentle rain and lightning protocols. There was no more action, with stumps called an hour before schedule at 5 pm.
“There’s a lot of things that I get frustrated with in cricket but bad light’s one of them,” Greenberg told SEN radio.
ICC rules dictate that play cannot resume if the on-field umpires agree the light conditions are “dangerous or unreasonable”.
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