Due to constant rain over the last three days, the ground was far from ready to have a cricket match be played on. Even though the rain subsided early Thursday morning, the damage caused to the outfield was enough to force a delay. The hover cover came off and it was decided that the umpires will have the first ground inspection around 10.30AM local time, the usual time of the start of play. But just five minutes before the scheduled inspection, the rain returned to delay proceedings further. The last and final inspection took place at 03:00 PM and the umpires called it off.

Source: dna June 13, 2019 12:45 UTC