After a washout at Trent Bridge one-day final moves to the reserve day

There will be a reserve day for Somerset against Glamorgan in the 2024 Metro Bank One-Day Cup Final since there was not enough playable pitch on Sunday at Trent Bridge.

The Midlands saw exceptionally severe thunderstorms and heavy rains, making it impossible to play even the toss because the field and square were covered and there was no chance to clean them after the storm.

On Monday, the sides will try to play a complete 50-over match, but additional bad weather is predicted. Somerset (2019 50-over champions) and Glamorgan (2021 champions) would split the trophy if there was no outcome. Luckily, there was an excess of medals from the previous year, so there will be plenty for both teams.

Previously, a bowl-out would have been used to determine the winner in these situations. Before the 2024 season, the ECB eliminated that option, though, by instituting reserve days for both the men’s and women’s limited-overs finals. ECB operations manager Alan Fordham expressed his expectation that they wouldn’t be necessary in a speech in November: “Every knockout match has a reserve day, but it’s remarkable how little reserve days are actually required,” he stated. “Hopefully, I’m not leaving myself a hostage to fortune.”

This will mark the third time that a reserve day has been utilised for a men’s List A final and the first time since the 2020 Vitality Blast Final that one has been utilised in men’s domestic cricket. The Charlotte Edwards Cup from last summer also needed to be finished on reserve day.

At 2.33 pm, when the rain was at its worst, play was eventually called off without a ball being bowled, since the time required to dry the pitch would have beyond the 4.02 cut-off point. If there had been any chance of play, the game would have started as 50 overs each side and continued into Monday before any changes to the playing conditions were made.

For Somerset, the pursuit of a hat-trick of titles that was disrupted last week continues with the One-Day Cup as the only prize left, although for another day. Following their loss to Lancashire in the Blast final on Saturday, Surrey secured their third consecutive County Championship with one round remaining.

Glamorgan, on the other hand, needs a little lift. They finished second-bottom in Division Two going into the final round after failing to advance from the South Group in the Blast.

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On Sunday, both teams had three coaches’ worth of supporters in attendance. Two buses from Glamorgan left Cardiff at 6am, and one from Swansea arrived on Saturday and will stay overnight in the hopes that Monday’s prediction is a bust. About 200 Somerset supporters left Taunton at 6.10am.