I don’t know how to feel.
Sad, mainly. Anger, sporadic. The next person who says ‘cricket’s the winner’ near me is going to end up in the news. But a lot of - well, that was just the best.
Fears that coming back on day five, with a new crowd not seven hours deep into the day were assuaged with the stands, bar a few pockets here or there, packed. When Jamie Overton pulled the first ball of the day for four it was loud. When Smith edged behind an over later it was raucous. A pocket of cricket to decide a summer. And India ended up, as it were, winning two-all.
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