There was darkness on the field during the live match in the Caribbean Premier League 2024. This happened due to the flood light malfunctioning, due to which the match had to be stopped. This incident occurred 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 the history of cricket of a match being stopped due to a fault in the floodlights. This is the fourth time in the last 18 months that the match had to be stopped or canceled due to a fault in the flood lights.

The condition of the match when the flood lights failed

When the Eliminator match of CPL 2024 was stopped due to flood light failure, the last over of Trinbago Knight Riders' innings was going on and its first ball had been bowled. Whereas his infield batsman Nicholas Puran was unbeaten after scoring 91 runs on 60 balls. Meaning, 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.

This happened for the fourth time in 18 months

However, what happened in CPL 2024 is not the first incident in the history of cricket of the match being stopped due to faulty flood lights. This is the fourth such incident in the last one and a half years. On the last 3 occasions, matches were halted or even canceled completely due to faulty flood lights. Let's take a look at those matches which were stopped or canceled due to faulty flood lights in the last 18 months. IPL also has a match in this.