Each side takes one point from what would have been the opening fixture in this year’s competition for both
Persistent rain in Leicester forced the Vitality Blast T20 match between Leicestershire and Lancashire at the Fischer County Ground to be abandoned without a ball bowled.
Each side takes one point from what would have been the opening fixture in this year’s competition for both.
The captains were able to toss, but no sooner had Colin Ackermann won it for Leicestershire and announced that his team would bowl than the forecast rain began and continued unrelenting until umpires Ben Debenham and Mike Burns decided at around 8pm that no play would be possible.
Lancashire Lightning will hope for better weather on Sunday, when they kick off their home Vitality Blast campaign against Durham Jets at the Emirates Old Trafford at 2.30pm.
Likewise Leicestershire, who travel to Edgbaston to take on Birmingham Bears, also with a 2.30pm start.
Courtesy of the ECB reporters network
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