A frustrated Nasser Hussain questioned the “bizarre” decision for the players to have lunch while the sun shined as rain interrupted day three of the Lord’s Test between England and New Zealand.
After the weather had delayed the start of the third day’s play, the umpires ruled that lunch would be taken at 12.20pm BST as conditions and the surface dried out ahead of a planned resumption at 1pm – even with more rain forecast to arrive.
