“We’re worried about the wind and the damage it can do from a spectator’s point of view as much as anything else,” said New Zealand commentator Ian Smith.
“You can see it’s not just the hoardings themselves, it’s the scaffold and the structures that have been holding them together. Some of them have blown down as well and that has presented quite a dangerous element to some of the spectators in the grandstand.
“So I think they’re fully justified in holding off until we can get a bit of a break in the weather. It absolutely disintegrated in the wind, so we have a few questions to answer before we get on with Australia’s reply.”
Played restarted as Australia chased down Sri Lanka’s 209 to earn their first win of the tournament.