Gloucestershire suffered their third no-result and second complete wash-out of the NatWest T20 Blast season when play was abandoned after the toss had been made against Essex in Chelmsford.
There were five pitch inspections during an evening of intermittent rain and play was due to start in a five-overs-a-side game at 2128 BST.
However, further rain after Gloucestershire had won the toss and decided to field led to the umpires abandoning the televised match.
Gloucestershire's fourth one-point return - which includes a tie in the opening game - left them in seventh place, but within a point of Middlesex in the last of the four qualifying places for the knockout stages.
Essex remained bottom of the south group and their hopes of going through receded further after the rain had fallen without much let-up from mid-afternoon onwards.
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