Rain stopped play -again!

An early start this morning with a trip into Salisbury to attend the Ambassadors' Breakfast Club meeting at the Grasmere House Hotel. Afterwards I visited Booker's to purchase a few items including a huge jar of sweets for tomorrow's Parish Fete ("Guess how many sweets in the jar").  I briefly went into the city centre to do some banking before returning home to deal with some Complex work.  Sophie called around at 2 p.m. with her children to play an hour's tennis.  The weather was hot and dry and it was quite tiring playing tennis in the heat.  I was, therefore, looking forward to a pleasant time in the evening sunshine at the Rose Bowl.  I set off just after 4.30 p.m. and the traffic around the Rose Bowl was really heavy.  It was clear that they were expecting a huge crowd today with a warning about a delayed exit from the car park and quite a queue to collect my pre-ordered ticket.  True to form, it started to rain just before the Hampshire's T20 game against Middlesex was about to start and we were delayed for half an hour - the match being reduced to 18 overs each.  Hampshire won the toss and batted first putting on 116 runs for the loss of 2 wickets before the game had to be abandoned because of the appalling rain that was now falling steadily.  Only the English could invent a game that relies upon really good weather in their unpredictable climate!  It took me about 15 minutes to get out of the car park (a really good bit of organisation by the stewards) and I was home by 11 p.m. or thereabouts.  Despite the poor weather and lack of cricket after 13 overs, it was relaxing to get out.  The cricket which I did see was excellent and Hampshire would certainly have gone on to win.  As it is, Middlesex were bottom of the Group anyway and Hampshire are top.  Now Hampshire will face Durham at home in the Quarter Final.