Rain, rain go away

A common scene at cricket grounds on Saturday. (Ljubica Vrankovic)

The weather claimed another scalp with the majority of cricket matches on Saturday abandoned due to rain.

Competitions had been hopeful of getting some action in, but slowly on Saturday morning the cancellations came in as the rain continued to fall.

In the Victorian Turf, Victorian Sub-District and North West Metropolitan cricket associations, matches were half way through with day one played in 35-degree heat.

In the VTCA, it’s the fourth round out of six that has either been called off completely or half way through.

This round there were three matches in the six senior men’s divisions that managed results on day one.

In the Isaacs Howarth Shield, Haig Fawkner defeated the Druids, in the Evans-Clark Shield,

Footscray Angliss defeated St Andrew’s Footscray and in the Russell Pollock Shield Pascoe Vale Central was too good for the Williamstown Congs.

In the Subbie competition, only St Bernards got a win against Strathmore in the north-west competition.

Victorian Premier Cricket had scheduled three rounds of T20 matches with each team to play two games.

It was report to grounds of the first match, before they were all abandoned and the rest of the games called off.

The Gisborne and District,and Ballarat cricket associations top grades will revert to one-dayers next week.

The Diamond Valley Cricket Association was one association that didn’t cancel the round with matches half way through.

Despite this, all games in the top three grades were abandoned.