Rain delayed cricket on my birthday

I celebrated THE ERIK HOGSTROM BIRTHDAY EXTRAVAGANZAPALOOZA®! today with a good book -- Barney Hoskyns' examination of LED ZEPPELIN IV -- and by listening to some CRICKET on the radio.
I listened to BBC RADIO'S TEST MATCH SPECIAL online as ENGLAND lost their opening match in the WORLD TWENTY20 limited-overs tournament to the hosts WEST INDIES in a baffling manner.
England scored 191-5 batting first in the match in GUYANA, with Eoin Morgan (55) and Luke Wright (45 not out) leading the way.
The hosts had reached 30-0 in reply when persistent rain forced a delay.
I have often compared listening to cricket on the radio to listening to a baseball game rain delay on the radio -- there is often plenty of time to spin lengthy yarns.
Can you imagine what a cricket rain delay sounds like on the radio?
I can! I heard one today.
The commentators discussed more Guyanese history than I thought possible. They discussed the weather, old cricketers and so many other topics I lost track.
The most bizarre occurrence came when play resumed, however. Cricket officials recalculated the rain-shortened run target the West Indies would need to reach to win the match -- it was only 30 more runs from 22 balls bowled.
Laughably easy!
West Indies duly reached that target (despite some valiant England fielding) and I was left shaking my head in disbelief at the seemingly unfair method use to determine the match winner.