There have been plenty of reasons that a cricket match has been forced to be interrupted.
Rain, bad light, floodlight failure, even swarms of bees have all caused temporary interruptions in play in the recent past, but it's pretty rare that the sun causes a game to be halted.
However that was the case in the first ODI between New Zealand and India in Napier, NZ, on Wednesday, when India's innings was halted due to the sun shining in the players' eyes.
That facilitated a 40-minute break with India at 1-44 in reply to New Zealand's total of 157, Kane Williamson's 64 off 81 balls the only highlight.
The delay caused an over to be lost, with India's target adjusted accordingly to 156 from 49 overs.
Umpires Shaun Haig and Shaun George felt that the light was posing a danger to the players, and offered batsmen Virat Kohli and Shikhar Dhawan the chance to leave the field until the sun had set further.
"The setting sun is in the eyes of the players and we need to think of the safety of the players as well as umpires," South African umpire George said, also confirming that the umpires made the decision to leave the field, not at the request of the players.
The rules state that: "It is solely for the umpires together to decide whether either conditions of ground, weather or light or exceptional circumstances mean that it would be dangerous or unreasonable for play to take place."
"There's nothing we can really do, to be honest," Central Districts chief executive Pete de Wet told the New Zealand Herald.
It had been hoped that the awkward time period would fall during the innings break, but the issues continued for longer than anticipated.
India managed to avoid being upset by the sunny interlude and romped home to a comfortable eight-wicket victory with 85 balls to spare.
Kohli fell caught behind off the bowling of Lockie Ferguson, with Dhawan finished unbeaten on 75 in India's total of 2-156.
'It's hard to move the sun'
It was not the first time that the McLean Park ground had this issue. Play was similarly stopped just last week for around 20 minutes in a domestic Twenty20 clash between Central Stags and Canterbury Kings.
With cricket having to deal with a perception of unnecessary delays to play, this particular disruption did not go down well with supporters.
Part of the problem is that the pitch runs on an east-west orientation, with most pitches around the world running north-south.
"We haven't had to deal with too many sun-strikes," New Zealand captain Kane Williamson said.
"But we knew that in some of the domestic T20 games that had been the case … and it's fairly considerable so it did have to happen.
"It's hard to move the sun and hard to move the grandstand. So we didn't have any other option and we had to sit down for a bit."
