CPL 2024: The field was plunged into darkness due to the failure of floodlights, and the match had to be stopped, this happened for the third time in 18 months

The field went dark during a live match in the Caribbean Premier League 2024. This happened due to a floodlight malfunction, due to which the match had to be stopped. This incident happened in the eliminator match of CPL 2024, which was being played between Trinbago Knight Riders and Barbados Royals. This is not the first incident in cricket history where a match was stopped due to a floodlight malfunction. This is the third time in the last 18 months that a match had to be stopped or canceled due to a floodlight malfunction.

When the eliminator match of CPL 2024 was stopped due to the floodlights being out of order, the last over of the Trinbago Knight Riders innings was going on and its first ball had already been bowled. At the same time, its in-form batsman Nicholas Pooran was unbeaten after scoring 91 runs off 60 balls. That means he was 9 runs away from his second consecutive century in this season of CPL. Trinbago Knight Riders had scored 168 runs for 3 wickets in 19.1 overs.

However, what happened in CPL 2024 is not the first incident in cricket history where a match was stopped due to a floodlight failure. This is the third such incident in the last one and a half years. Let's take a look at the matches that have been stopped due to a floodlight failure in the last 18 months. One of these matches is also from IPL.

In the IPL 2023 match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Punjab Kings played in Mohali on April 1, the game had to be stopped for half an hour due to a technical fault in the floodlights of the ground.

On 6 September 2023, the Super Four match of the Asia Cup between Pakistan and Bangladesh also faced disruption as the floodlights of the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore malfunctioned. This happened during Pakistan's innings in the match when they were chasing the target of 194 runs set by Bangladesh. One of the 6 floodlights of the stadium stopped working then.

The third incident of floodlight failure occurred on 1 October in CPL 2024. Here the match was stopped due to the failure of two floodlights on the ground.