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Worsening Delhi pollution halts a match, sends players to safety

India and Sri-Lanka players with their gas masks on after the match was stopped [PHOTO: COURTESY]

Hazardous smog stopped play in the third Test between India and Sri Lanka in New Delhi on Sunday, with players wearing face masks as air quality dipped in the heavily polluted capital.

Many of Sri Lanka's fielders returned from lunch on the second day wearing masks amid visible haze at the Feroz Shah Kotla stadium

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