The third one-day international between England and Australia at Edgbaston has been abandoned because of rain without a ball bowled.
The umpires inspected the ground regularly on Wednesday but every time it seemed play would be possible another downpour arrived.
There was not enough time left to dry the ground sufficiently and still allow for the minimum of a 20 overs per side match.
England, 2-0 up in the five-match series, will no longer be able to go to number one in the one-day international world rankings ahead of Australia because they needed to win 5-0.
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July 5th 2012 @ 9:49am
swannies05 said | July 5th 2012 @ 9:49am | Report comment
I have no doubt that we will win at least one of the remaining two games but still, great news the Poms can’t go to one in the world. GREAT NEWS
July 5th 2012 @ 9:56am
Red Kev said | July 5th 2012 @ 9:56am | Report comment
Yeah considering that the only reason it was possible was that Australia’s match against Ireland was washed out I’d say it’s a fair result.
July 5th 2012 @ 4:20pm
Disco said | July 5th 2012 @ 4:20pm | Report comment
Assuming Ireland didn’t cause an upset.
July 5th 2012 @ 10:50am
jameswm said | July 5th 2012 @ 10:50am | Report comment
Happy for the rain for once!!
July 5th 2012 @ 3:34pm
Brendon said | July 5th 2012 @ 3:34pm | Report comment
Our best result of the series yet. The boys did us proud and Johnson performed at his best.
July 5th 2012 @ 9:00pm
SandBox said | July 5th 2012 @ 9:00pm | Report comment
thanks for the laugh Brendon.
Was Johnson at his best playing cards in the dressing room, or do you think he put a martial arts demonstration on for some English gentry? Maybe he was playing a game on his iPad