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NEW ZEALAND captain Daniel Vettori lashed out at the umpires after rain washed away his side's chances of squaring the one-day series against England at Edgbaston. The hosts had made 162 all out from 24 overs in a rain-afffected match, and Vettori's Black Caps were on 127 for two - only seven runs from victory going into the 20th over on the Duckworth/Lewis method.
But the umpires called a halt because of the weather, with the game just six balls short of a result. And Vettori admitted his side were unlucky considering danger men Brendon McCullum and Scott Styris were at the crease in a flourishing partnership of 48. Vettori said: "It's a game we would have won if we'd played all the overs or even got that 20th over, so there's a sense of disappointment - it's almost like a loss."
The spinner felt the umpires had a responsibility to hurry the game along when the weather was always going to be a threat. England appeared to make a substantial number of fielding changes between deliveries while theAa 30-minute period between innings was still maintained despite so much playing time being lost to the rain.
"It's just one of those common-sense solutions," Vettori said. "We bowled one allotment of 13 overs and one of 11, so it wasn't like we were tired or anything. It (the break) could have been reduced to ten minutes and we'd have gone straight back out there, especially with that knowledge of what weather was coming. If you can take the common-sense approach to most things, they normally get sorted.
"There were a lot of stoppages. Some were necessary, some were not. I've played for a long, long time and never been fined for a slow over-rate. If some people can do it, then I think you should push the case through."
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