The Division One CricInfo Championship match between Lancashire and Surrey at Old Trafford has been abandoned without a ball being bowled.

Each side takes four points. Afterwards Lancashire's cricket secretary Dave Edmundson explained how hopeless the situation has been this week.

"It is my sixth season here, and I have never known anything like it - with the outfield in the state that it is," he said.

"It is not just wet. It is absolutely saturated about a foot to two feet below the surface, according to our groundsman.

"There is nowhere for the water to go."

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