mvaughan

We started the summer's tipping well and I've been racking my brains trying to think of a Test Match that I was involved in as a player that had the sort of late drama witnessed on Monday evening. The best I could come up with was when Marcus Trescothick and I had six overs to chase 50 in the final session of the 3rd Test in June 2002. Our opponents? Sri Lanka. We did it with an over to spare despite facing Muttiah Muralitharan when he was at his peak. And they say I wouldn't have made a good T20 player! Still, that wasn't a patch on what happened last week. Andy Flower said he thought England had about a 3% chance of bowling them out when they took to the field. He may be a great coach and was a fantastic batsman but he's no odds-compiler; England were matched at 1000.0 on Betfair at...