VIDEO: When blazing sunlight interrupted a NatWest T20 Blast match

Hardly have we heard about any such incident when the sunlight was the reason behind delaying any match.

We have seen a cricket match getting delayed by rain, problem with light and due to a streaker interruption. But hardly have we heard about any such incident when the sunlight was the reason behind delaying any match. It happened during a NatWest T20 Blast match between Kent and Sussex at Canterbury on June 30, 2016. Also Read: When a cricket match came to halt for 12 stolen iPhones

While chasing the target of 167, Sussex openers Luke Wright and Chris Nash had faced only eight deliveries when the sun light directly coming towards the pitch through the gap between the pavilion and Frank Woolley Stand irked them. The match was stopped for around 17 minutes as both the teams’ players stood at the ground and waited for the sun to drop.

Bit of a delay as the sun is blazing through the gaps in the stand at Canterbury right into the batsman's eye-line. Sun stopped play!!

— Sussex Cricket (@SussexCCC) June 30, 2016

We’re back under way at Kent after sun stopped play #Blast16https://t.co/6sGvhPUN9l

— NatWest T20 Blast (@NatWestT20Blast) June 30, 2016

Not for the first time such incident happened during a cricket match. In the year 2007, during a match between Derbyshire and Yorkshire, sunlight led to the stoppage of 55 minutes in the game as the batsmen could not see the ball when the bowlers bowled from the City End.

After the delay of 17 minutes in the game, the match was resumed and from there on it was all about debutant Kagiso Rabada as he grabbed wickets of both the Sussex openers and brought his side back into the game. In the end, Rabada’s Kent won the game by 10 runs.