The forecasted deluge of rain never came, and England overcame a sticky start to put on a show worth savouring
The forecast had said it was going to rain. Had insisted, in fact, with the stubborn assurance of the friend who tells you that the last train definitely doesn’t leave till midnight. At stumps on day three it confidently predicted conditions that would keep the players in their dressing rooms for most of the day. By morning it revised its estimate to a major downpour at lunchtime.
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