Both of the today's World Cup warm up matches have been called off due to heavy rain. Australia Vs Netherlands had a 23 over each game and Australia batted the entire innings whereas Netherlands could only batted 14.2 overs as rain came out of nowhere. On the other hand, India Vs England had been abandoned without a single ball bowled.

Starc picked up a hat-trick against Netherlands in the warm up match.
In Australia Vs Netherlands match, Australia won the toss and decided to bat first. They experimented their batting order with Inglis and Smith opened the innings and Carey at number 3. Smith notched up a quick-fire 50 and scored a fine 55 off 42 balls. But his partner Josh Inglis got a 3 ba duck. Carey made 28 off 25, while Cameron Green scored a brilliant 34 off just 26 balls. At the end, Mitchell Starc's handy 24 from 22 deliveries helped them post a competitive 166-7 after the reduced 23 overs.

In reply, Mitchell Starc absolutely was on fire with the new ball. He ripped through the Dutch top order with his unplayable inswingers. He first trapped Max ODowd LBW for a golden duck and then rattled the stumps of Barresi in the first ball and was on a hat-trick. On the hat-trick delivery, Starc left Bas De Leede's stumps cartwheeling and the Netherlands were stuttering for 12-3. Mitchell Marsh and Sean Abbott had picked up wickets. With the part timer Labuschagne had one leaving the Dutch crumbling on 65-6 and then the heavy downpour came and umpires called off the game

In the other match at Guwahati between India Vs England had been called off without a single ball bowled (with toss).

The next matches are : New Zealand Vs South Africa at Thiruvananthapuram and Bangladesh Vs England at Guwahati.