Bad Light and Rain in cricket. Must do better
Sky (17.8) are currently making many of the points contained in the documents below.
The assumption needs to be get play if at all possible unless conditions are clearly dangerous.
Laws of Cricket
Law 2.71
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.
Conditions shall not be regarded as either dangerous or unreasonable merely because they are not ideal.
The fact that the grass and the ball are wet does not warrant the ground conditions being regarded as unreasonable or dangerous.
Law 2.82
The Umpires shall immediately suspend play, or not allow play to start or to recommence, if either umpire considers that the conditions of ground, weather or light, or any other circumstances are either dangerous or unreasonable.
Simon Taufel ICC Umpires guide on Bad Light 2012
http://iccaccreditation.com/wp-content/uploads/Dealing-with-Bad-Light.pdf
ICC Test playing conditions 2019 (see 2)
file:///C:/Users/keith/Downloads/ICC-Test-Match-Playing-Conditions-Final-1-September-2019.pdf
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