No competition should depend on the weather. However, the current Champions Trophy has invariably been AFFECTED BY BAD WEATHER, and so some teams have benefited from it while others have suffered because of it.
The ICC Champions Trophy,which is currently on, is aforerunner to the ICC World Cup, also scheduled to be played in England in 2019. The weather in England has always been a bit unpredictable. It can come in the way of good contests or interrupt a game that is delicately poised, and thus upset the rhythm of the players who hate stop-start situations while playing a match.
Unfortunately, this time the weather has played a major role in the Champions Trophy, where only the top eight in the ICC rankings get to participate.Whilemost teams in a competition like this are well matched, there will always be some teams that will be weakened by injuries and loss of form of some of their players. These teams will hope that the English weather comes to their rescue, whereby they either win by the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method or share points with oppositions that are stronger than them on paper after the match is washed out.No competition should depend on the weather, but the current Champions Trophy has invariably been affected by bad weather, and so some teams have benefited from it while others have suffered because of it.
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