Kanpur Weather Forecast, India vs Bangladesh, 2nd Test: Rain to Washout Day 1 at Green Park

Kanpur Weather Forecast , India vs Bangladesh , 2nd Test: Following the win at Chennai, the two teams have moved north to Kanpur where the second and final Test would be played. While it promises to be an exciting contest, eyes would be on the skies as there are chances of rain. The chances of rain is high. As per Accuweather, there is an 80 per cent chance of rain playing spoilsport on Friday. The humidity would also be on the higher side and that would make proceedings extremely uncomfortable for the players of both sides. The humidity would be around the 90 per cent-mark. For the first two days, there are forecasts of rain and it starts improving only from the third day - which is Sunday. 

Kanpur Stand Unsafe

Meanwhile, there is more bad news for Green Park Stadium in Kanpur as the Uttar Pradesh Public Works Department (PWD) has billed one of the stands at the stadium as being dangerous. According to a media report, the PWD officials believe the stand may not be able to take full weight of fans over the course of the match and could crash down.

"The PWD has raised some issues and we have agreed that we will not sell all the tickets of Balcony C," UPCA CEO Ankit Chatterjee told The Indian Express newspaper.

"This stand won't be able to take the weight of even 50 fans, if they start jumping after Rishabh Pant hits a six. This part of the stadium is in dire need of repair," a PWD engineer told the newspaper.

Ind vs Ban Squads

India Squad: Rohit Sharma (c), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli , KL Rahul , Rishabh Pant (wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin , Jasprit Bumrah , Akash Deep, Mohammed Siraj, Sarfaraz Khan, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Dhruv Jurel, Yash Dayal

Bangladesh Squad: Shadman Islam, Zakir Hasan, Najmul Hossain Shanto (c), Mominul Haque, Mushfiqur Rahim, Shakib Al Hasan, Litton Das (wk), Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Taskin Ahmed, Hasan Mahmud, Nahid Rana, Mahmudul Hasan Joy, Jaker Ali, Khaled Ahmed, Taijul Islam, Nayeem Hasan