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Afghanistan v NZ test abandoned without a ball bowled
Afghanistan will play their first of the three-match ODI series against South Africa on Wednesday.
Afghanistan’s one-off test against New Zealand became just the eighth match in the format’s history to be abandoned without a ball being bowled after rain washed out the fifth and final day in India’s Greater Noida region on Friday.
The first ever test scheduled between the sides looked doomed from the start due to steady rain for over two weeks in the region. It was also the first test to be scheduled at the Shahid Vijay Singh Pathik Sport Complex near Delhi.
Afghanistan will play their first of the three-match ODI series against South Africa on Wednesday.
New Zealand will fly to Sri Lanka on Saturday for a two-test series in Galle from the same day.