Antigua Pitch Forces Abandonment After Batter Hospitalised

A home lucifer successful nan West Indies has been abandoned for a vulnerable transportation aft batter Jeremiah Louis was deed connected nan helmet.

Leeward Islands' Louis was taken to infirmary pinch a imaginable concussion aft a magnitude shot from Trinidad and Tobago and West Indies seamer Jayden Seales reared and deed him successful nan broadside of nan caput during nan first convention of time three.

Louis fell to nan level earlier removing his helmet and beating nan crushed successful frustration. He past kicked his helmet successful nan guidance of a short-leg fielder and walked towards nan pavilion.

A Cricket West Indies connection said Louis is successful a unchangeable condition.

The connection added nan match, held astatine nan Sir Vivian Richards stadium successful Antigua, had been called disconnected because nan playing aboveground displayed "unpredictable and uneven behaviour, raising superior concerns for subordinate safety".

"Following discussions pinch nan curator, it was wished that nan transportation could not beryllium safely repaired without creating an unfair advantage and was truthful deemed unfit to resume, resulting successful nan lucifer being abandoned arsenic a draw," it added.

Prior to nan abandonment, Seales had taken each 7 wickets arsenic Leeward Islands fell to 140-7.

The stadium, which regularly hosts world cricket, is expected to big nan last of nan tourney - West Indies' home first-class title - from 17 May.

Cricket West Indies said "all basal resources and expertise will beryllium deployed to guarantee nan mentation of a safe and competitory playing surface".