Hot Mumbai weather threatens Kiwi, Lankan cricketers [March 17 2011]

The Sri Lankan and New Zealand cricketers apart from their tough task on the field are up against the rising temperature as they battle to survive under hot and humid conditions which is presently experiencing in the city of Mumbai.

In fact the city experienced its second hottest March day ever on Wednesday, when the mercury soared to a staggering 41.6 degrees Celsius in Mumbai which the experts called the hot, dry weather a "new phenomenon" in the city.

It was the hottest day of March in 55 years, with the previous high—also the all-time high—coming on March 28, 1956 when the temperature was 41.7 degrees Celsius. Weather data indicated that this is the first time in a decade that the maximum has soared to over 40.