Women’s Cricket World Cup: Australia v Sri Lanka match abandoned as heavy rain falls – as it happened

The wet scene in Colombo. Photograph: Unnati Naidu/SPP/Shutterstock

1.13pm BST

Summary

Well, there’s not much to summarise today unfortunately. We started with a light drizzle and the hope of an exciting match to follow, but those hopes were slowly washed away in a flood of Colombo rain. Eventually logic prevailed and match officials decided not to make the teams sit and watch the rain fall for another 2.5 hours until the cut off time to have a 20-over match expired. Alyssa Healy and Chamari Athapaththu shook hands and the players are getting a few selfies in with the crowd before packing up and heading back to their hotels.

Thanks for joining us, hopefully you’ve been kept somewhat entertained even with the complete lack of cricket taking place. Join us next time – until then, stay dry and maybe try dreaming about cricket tonight?

1.05pm BST

Match abandoned

Word has just come through from the ground that the game has officially been abandoned. Not unexpected news, but disappointing for both teams nonetheless.