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As they tidy up the stands at The Oval, and the players let it all sink in, time for us to say goodbye. It’s been thrilling, from first ball to final yorker. To the walking wounded, the victorious and vanquished – Rishabh Pant, Ben Stokes, Shubman Gill, Mohammed Siraj, Harry Brook, Joe Root, and the supporting cast – thank you all.
Those results in full:
First Test (Headingley) : England won by five wickets
Second Test (Edgbaston) : India won by 336 runs
Third Test (Lord’s): England won by 22 runs
Fourth Test (Emirates Old Trafford): Draw
Fifth Test (The Kia Oval): India won by six runs
Series tied 2-2
Thanks too for your company and emails throughout the series. We’ll be back for the white-ball stuff in September and, on 21 November, for the first ball of the Perth Test. Till then, have a wonderful summer.
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“People, your colleagues included, are in raptures about Prince Harry’s 111 yesterday. Actually in the end it meant diddley squat and he might as well have scored nothing. A proper Test batter would have turned that into a 150 and more and seen his side home, knowing that they were a man down and with a fragile lower order. Jury still out....”
The jury still out on Harry Brook? Come, come Jeremy Boyce in the south of France. A cafe au lait in a glorious village square says Brook and his audacity will win, has won, far, far more games for England than he’ll lose.
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