57th over: Australia 235-5 (Carey 4, Green 74) Miserly from Broad until Green makes that jollygreengiant stride and cover drives with impossible elegance for a man mountain.
“Greetings from the Bunker.” Lovely to hear from you Charles Sheldrick.
“ My passion for cricket was ignited by the 1981 Ashes, I was 10, so I should be used to this by now.
Why does it still get to me after 40 years, the hope, the brief flash, like a glimpse of the sunrise through the fog, when England compete.
Then the gloom descends again and reality reasserts itself.
Do I need to get out more, or is that the problem?”
Charles, you just did need some sunshine. We all do.