Not so much as a ball was bowled at Punt Road in Melbourne today, persistent rain ending all hopes of play on the scheduled third day of the Pura Cup match between Victoria and Queensland.

Sadly, heavy rain began falling just a few minutes before the scheduled starting time of 11am and barely relented for the remainder of the day. Thoughts of a start at 1:40pm were briefly entertained but further drizzle and the build-up of water around the edges of extensive covering of the wicket square soon put paid to such aspirations.

The official abandonment occurred after the umpires and captains inspected the pitch at 4:00pm.

Weather permitting, play will begin at the revised time of 10:30am tomorrow. But, with Victoria set to re-commence at 3/160 in response to Queensland's first innings score of 417, it seems that both enterprising captaincy and equally imaginative batting might be required for any kind of result to be achieved.

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