KYLE McCallan made his 200th appearance for Ireland and New Zealand-born Regan West his debut but there was little else to get excited about at Stormont as only eight overs were possible in the second one day international against Kenya.

It means Ireland cannot lose the three-match series, which ends at the same venue tomorrow, although with a bad forecast today, groundsman Philip McCormick is already worried about the prospects for play.

Beyond receiving a presentation from Cricket Ireland president John Caldwell to mark what could be a unique landmark for an Ireland cricketer - no current player is within 85 caps of the Waringstown all-rounder - and conducting a couple of television interviews - McCallan enjoyed an easy day.

His captain, William Porterfield, lost the toss for the second successive match and with the ball again moving around Ireland were 18 for two when the rain arrived. It lasted for the best part of two hours and because of the time taken getting the covers into the middle the damage had done to the one of the run-ups and the game was called off by the umpires just after four o’clock without any more play.

Unfortunately for Porterfield and his opening partner, Gary Wilson, their scores of three and nought will go into the record books, both leg before to balls that swung back into them. Paul Stirling, on his return to the team after missing the last five matches, will be glad of th e time spent in the middle - he faced 20 balls - while Andre Botha looked as confident as ever and hit the only two boundaries of the innings.

West, the Civil Service North left hander and slow left arm bowler, was probably grateful he did not have anything to do after being awoken at midnight to tell him he would not be flying to Holland with the Ireland A team for their European Championship campaign but, instead would be getting his first taste of international cricket. It was the perfect initiation and he will be raring to go tomorrow.

It was inevitable that someone would have to be drafted in from the travelling party because the loss of Andrew White, with a broken finger - sustained when fielding in Sunday’s ODI - Kevin O’Brien, who is having a scan on his back today, and the return to their counties of Niall O’Brien yesterday and Boyd Rankin, for tomorrow, would have left Ireland with only 10 players for tomorrow’s game.

So the 11 players pick themselves for the final match of the summer which will give a first game of the week to Gary Kidd who was left out yesterday, despite being in the original squad ahead of West.