Delhi: Whenever there is mention of playing cricket in England, along with the cricket preparation of the teams, the weather is also mentioned a lot. Generally, they believe that they are ‘British summer’ i.e. pleasant and mild cold days. The summer here is not like India. Here in these days, the daytime temperature comes to 20-21 degrees Celsius and if it is sunny, it is called the weather to sunk in the park. If the temperature comes to 25 ° C, then those who tell the weather conditions show it in red color as if there is a fire. The ‘fire’ will be started here only after hearing about the temperature of 40 degrees Celsius of these days in North India and many other parts of India.

Stand and scorching audience without roof

In such a situation, the temperature there was 26 degrees Celsius around the day before the headingley test (the highest temperature in the day) and it was around 31 degrees Celsius on the first day of the test. The biggest mess is that the sun falls bright and straight, due to which the season of 26 ° C feels like about 31 ° C and is 31 ° C, then understand the destruction. According to Britain’s geography, the leads are still cold from London and even then on the first day of the Hadingley Test, not only the audience who were in the press box and TV box, they were also scorching. It is due to the common cold weather here that even AC fans are not used here.

Lords and MCC also had to bow down to the heat

It is getting so hot these days that the stadium tied in traditions like Lord’s also allowed the members of MCC not to tie a tie while watching the cricket match. Women also gave concession in dress. In most parts of the Handingley Stadium, there is no roof on the stands i.e. direct sunlight. This was almost the same sight as during the IPL 2025, in the last days, it was seen in Mullanpur Stadium near Mohali. The sun was so fast that the pitch was dried up quickly than the expectation of Ben Stokes and Gill and Pant took great advantage of it. The same happened on the second day.

In any stadium in England, there is no restriction on the sale of beer even for the common audience and stalls are stocked. On the first day of the Test, the condition was that by the afternoon, the audience, who was scorched in the summer, had finished the stock of almost every stall. It is common to buy bottle water here that the taps of ‘free water’ remain empty. At the Handingley Stadium, the audience left cricket and stood in a long line in front of them.

Light drizzle has no effect, weather increased worry

On the second day, the temperature did not make any difference due to light drizzle, but the temperature will fall in the next days. The effect of change in weather is also clearly visible on this part of the world. If you look at the photo of the old series, it will be seen that in almost these days the fielder used to push hands out when the ball is coming towards them. Now, although there is news of snow falling in some ground in April-May, then so much heat is being thought of changing the identity of ‘British Summer’.