I have tickets for South Africa v Afghanistan in Cardiff on Saturday. I saw a rain free England v Bangla Desh match played to a conclusion there last Saturday,
The forecast for Cardiff on Saturday hasnt been good but currently looks clear for a full game. We’ll see. Its not a game that is likely to be central to the outcome of the World Cup, the interest lies in seeing the two sides.
All that said a record number of games in the 2019 World Cup have been abandoned due to rain. I’m not sure this kind of thing happened in Geoffrey Boycott’s day.
The BBC have put up a piece looking at possible ways of getting more play in rainy conditions:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/48625085
Another way of addressing matters could be to accept that English and Welsh summers can be wet.
Writing on the first World Cup in the Guardian (24th June 1975) John Arlott noted that while no matches had been lost to rain that wasnt always the ‘In June 1954 only eight hours play was possible in the five-day Lord’s Test Match with Pakistan’
If a left field solution is required since Geoffrey Boycott is always right why not just ask him to decide who would have won abandoned matches..
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