Extraordinary Match
How I managed to come away with a draw here I'll never know...
Lost the toss and was put in on a belter of a pitch, but with seriously overcast conditions. Total collapse and we don't even make it halfway through the first day. England then bat merrily on (the weather has cleared just in time see...) getting to 400-2 ish, until one single spell from Lawson, who had been carted about the place before hand, takes five wickets in three overs, including a hattrick, causing a complete collapse. We then get in on a pitch that's starting to look a bit dodgy, but bat immpecably making a big lead until they strike back and skitlle our lower order fairly cheap to need 180 odd to win in a day. The rain comes in and virtually washes out the first session of the final day, and with heavily overcast conditions we bowl astonishingly well ripping through their batsmen so they are 6 down before tea. Then they get a partnership and it looks like they'll make the target, before we get Flintoff out just as he's making me really nervous and another wicket with an hour and a half to get two wickets. Alas, Anderson and Harmison, the most unlikely batting saviours in the world, play out over an hour scoring less than 15 runs between them to save the test.
Whew.. At the end I didn't know whether to be delighted with a draw, or dissapointed at not winning.