Gary Stead summed it up perfectly. That the New Zealand players spent their week playing "hallway cricket" and it wasn't the kind of build-up they had in mind ahead of their crucial World Test Championship matches against Sri Lanka and India.
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'Frustrating and disappointing' - Stead and Trott on abandoned Test
Gary Stead and Jonathan Trott both expressed their frustrations over the abandoned Test match © AFP
Words like "frustrating" and "disappointing" were frequently tossed around in the coaches' press conference in Greater Noida after the one-off Test was abandoned, marking it only the eighth instance of a Test match being abandoned without a ball bowled. And it was the first ever instance in India, requiring an
