England V India: Fifth Men’s Cricket Test Set For Thrilling Finale On Day Five – Live

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And Simon connected Mohammed Siraj, India’s rubber set of energy, and his fatal measurement back.

Some awesome penning by nan team astatine The Oval yesterday:

Ali’s lucifer report:

Barney’s homage to Harry Brook:

Preamble

After 5 Tests of high-class and astatine times chaotic cricket, it each comes down to this – half a session, if you’re lucky, 35 runs and 4 wickets.

With each sinew of each assemblage successful these 2 weary teams stretched to an E, it is almost-cruel to make them do conflict again. But for us, fat successful our armchairs, it is an umbrella connected nan cocktail - a past chance to spot Siraj, eyes wild, astatine nan apical of his mark, to watch Jamie Smith mounting sail for bid triumph astatine his location ground. Whether past night’s precocious hostility quickly dissolves to bathos, we find retired erstwhile play starts, astatine 11am.

At slightest it should commencement astatine 11am. While it is chucking it down present successful Manchester, arsenic Storm Floris takes hold, things look amended successful London. Our man connected nan crushed Jim Wallace reports that a sunny greeting has turned grey, but location is nary rainfall yet.

Do subordinate america for this last greeting of tense anticipation, to chew complete nan bid a past time, aliases to look guardant to what it intends for England’s Ashes hopes aliases Shubman Gill’s young Indian team.