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Only Test cricket can provide a day of extraordinary sporting drama and then deny a full-house of more than 27,000 spectators a result.
Only a five-match Test series can offer 24 days of the most compelling cricket, then cut short the action and come back for a 25th and final one with the result of the series in the balance and the deciding game nearing its natural thrilling conclusion.
The final Test of England vs India this summer, one of the best series in years, was on a knife-edge at The Oval in south London on Sunday evening when the umpires decided that a short, sharp shower of rain at 5.29pm was enough to rob that enthralled crowd of what was building up to be the most exciting and fitting of finishes.
England looked to be taking their redefinition of the Test run-chase to another level on the match’s penultimate day by romping towards their improbable target of 374.
