By Andrew Alderson in NapierThe Napier City Council and New Zealand Cricket are taking urgent action to set up an independent review of drainage and communication issues during the abandoned second Chappell-Hadlee one-day international at McLean Park. The match was called off at 6.46pm, five hours after the last significant rain fell on the ground. No significant drainage has been done since the abandonment of the New Zealand-Pakistan match on January 28, 2016. Napier mayor Bill Dalton said an independent expert will be on the park tomorrow, but was not expecting a major structural flaw with the drainage. New Zealand Cricket chief operations officer Anthony Crummy said it was too early to speculate whether the next ODI would be moved.

Source: New Zealand Herald February 02, 2017 09:10 UTC