My second experience of live Test cricket was a trip to Lords to see England v West Indies around 2000. England has managed to create a potentially winning position of needing 186 in the last innings, bear in mind the first three innings were finished in the first two days, with history being made on the Friday when all 4 innings were played. It was a luicrously tense affair with England winning by 3 wickets and the crowd cheering every single run.
Jim and I were there, much like Sunday at Trent Bridge, absolutely bricking it! We had agreed on the way to the ground all those years ago that if England had won it would be the start of the new era. And here we are seeing them do the same to the Aussies that we did to the Windies to begin this incredible revival in England's cricket fortunes.
These two matches feel like the book ends of a brilliant 5 years and is testament to Duncan Fletcher, Nasser Hussein, central contracts, Michael Vaughan [who played at Lords that day] and of course Freddie Flintoff.
Thank you all.
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