The inaugural WTC will have joint winners in case of a draw, which appears the likeliest outcome
\nDay four of the World Test Championship final between India and New Zealand was washed out at Southampton, making it the second time during the course of the match that play has been suspended due to rain.
\nOvernight and early morning rain meant the pitch and square at Hampshire\u2019s headquarters remained fully covered when the match should have resumed at 10:30 am local time (0930 GMT).
\nPlay was finally abandoned for the day at 3:00 pm (1400 GMT), with Friday\u2019s first day having suffered a similar fate.
\nMatch referee Chris Broad, however, has a special dispensation to extend this final into a sixth day \u2014 men\u2019s Tests usually only last a maximum of five days \u2014 if he feels that will compensate for time lost in the game.
\nAn absorbing day of high-quality cricket on Sunday, cut short by bad light despite the use of the Hampshire Bowl\u2019s floodlights, ended with New Zealand 101-2 in reply to India\u2019s first innings 217 \u2014 a deficit of 116 runs.
\nNew Zealand\u2019s Kyle Jamieson took an impressive 5-31 in 22 overs \u2014 the towering paceman\u2019s fifth five-wicket haul in just eight career Tests.
\nBlackcaps opener Devon Conway fell for 54 two balls before the close.
\nIt was his third score of over fifty in just five Test innings following the 29-year-old South Africa-born left-hander\u2019s stunning 200 on his debut against England at Lord\u00b4s this month.
\nIndia, as New Zealand had done after winning the toss, bowled well in helpful conditions with fast bowler Ishant Sharma having figures of 1-19 in 12 overs at Sunday\u2019s close and off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin 1-20 in 12.
\nThis match, the culmination of the inaugural World Test Championship that has spanned two years of series between the leading Test nations, is worth $1.6 million to the winners and $800,000 to the runners-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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