A downed floodlight pole at Somerset Cricket Club has forced officials at the West End ground to scrap all night matches for the remainder of the season.

Staff from Government’s Works and Engineering and Planning departments are currently investigating Wednesday’s freak incident which saw a pole at the northwestern end of the ground come crashing down on a parked car.

The incident happened shortly before 5 p.m. and was witnessed by several club members and a group of youth footballers who were training on a nearby pitch.

“It was definitely an act of God that nobody was hurt because we did have a few junior teams actually training on the field, and traditionally parents tend to wait around for their children in the parking lot near where the pole fell,” said Somerset CC president Richard Scott.

“We’ve actually had planning and works and engineering staff come up to investigate the situation and offer recommendations, and we have taken the necessary steps to ensure this sort of thing never happens again.

“But at the moment we are still in the preliminary stages of the investigation and so it would be a bit premature for me to give any reasons as to why the pole came down.”

Scott said club officials would assess the condition of all of the poles carry their their floodlights and would take whatever advice was given by the experts.

Somerset had the floodlighting system installed three years ago, enabling the club to resume hosting night football and hold a popular summer 20/20 cricket tournament.

Scott confirmed that night football at the venue has been scrapped for the rest season, while all Commercial and women’s football matches scheduled for Somerset today and tomorrow have also been postponed.

“Night football is definitely finished for the season . . . that’s pretty much a done deal,” he added. “And as far as our field being available, once we get the clearance from planning the field will be reopened.”

Scott said the club hoped to reopen the field to facilitate day matches by next weekend at the earliest.