Originally posted by Ramesh Choudhary:
I still thin that england made heavy whether of the last day.
I stayed up and watched the English 2nd innings on Saturday and went from being convinced that they would lose (once Flintoff seemed to screw his shoulder up) to thinking they could probably win with Australia needing to break Edgaston record books to win..
When I got up on Sunday morning and discovered that Australia needed 107 more runs with just 2 wickets remaining I was sure the game was dead and buried and would be finished in less than 30 minutes...
Yesterday as the "runs required to win" kept creeping down, you could see the England team flagging and spirits dropping... It seemed to me like England were without hope and were going to go 2-0 down effectively killing the series dead and therefore ending any hope for the game of cricket (If *this* England team cant beat Australia then theres no point in bothering to watch ANY cricket is there? Its almost as silly as international Rugby League its so one sided!)..
But.. my fingernails got shorter and I kept watching and just in the nick of time the final wicket fell... What took them so long?? Were they deliberately playing for maximum drama?
A fantastic emotional roller-coaster of a game! (I even managed to have a crowd Filipinos watching the last 45 minutes on the edge of their seats once I explained what was going on!)...
Still... now England have pulled their pants up and narrowly avoided the white-wash, they'll no doubt all go back to sleep and lose the next 3 tests!