Match stopped due to sunlight (photo- albert perez/getty images)
A strange case was seen in the England T20 blast 2025 tournament. In this tournament, the match between the Cantt Spitfire and Glusterchher at St. Lawrence Ground in Cantorbury had to be stopped not due to rain but due to sunlight. You must be feeling very strange to hear this, but this is the truth. This was confirmed by Glustersher Cricket on his social media account.
So stopped the match
In this match, the Cantt Spitfire batted first and scored 157 runs losing 9 wickets in 20 overs. Harry Finch scored 42 runs from the team while captain Sam Billings scored 38 runs. Opener Twanda Muayye contributed 33 runs. For Glustersher, Ajit Dal took three wickets for 24 runs in four overs while Matt Taylor and Josh Shaw took two wickets each. The Glustersher team started chasing the target well but after a while the game had to be stopped.
☀️ Sun stops play.
Rather than rain, the sun is in the eyes of the batters.
For the safety of the players, the sides have come off the pitch.
Score remains 29/0 [3.2],#Becccomeglorious pic.twitter.com/m8bof21guC
– Gloucestershire cricket 🏆 (@gloscrick) June 18, 2025
Actually, according to the sun at 8:15 pm, this game had to be stopped at 8:15 pm. The sunlight was falling in the eyes of both the batsmen of Glustershare and that is why they did not see the ball properly. Both openers left the field for 8 minutes and went out towards the dugout. Glustersher Cricket has revealed this on its social media account.
Glustersher won the match
Glustersher won the match with 7 wickets. For the team, captain Jack Taylor batting aggressively played a match -winning innings of 54* runs. Not only this, Oliver Price contributed 41* while Diersi Short scored 33 runs. Miles Mahmood contributed 25 runs. This is Gloustersher’s first win in 6 matches, while the Cant team won three matches in 7 matches after the end of this match, while they have lost in three matches. In the T20 Blast 2025 points table, the South Group ranks at the eighth position while the Cantt is ranked sixth.
