Harry Brook accepts the trophy, a big old handful of silver. He smiles the smile of a ten-year-old in the family photo at Christmas, and that is that. Thanks for your company and correspondence about everything from the weather to the Tims.
Do join us for the ODI series between the same teams, which starts on Sunday at 1am in the UK, an hour before the clocks go back. Let’s hope it’s better than this. Things can only get drier.
Rain is now billowing across the ground. So the umpires, who didn’t exactly seem desperate to give the crowd some entertainment, are off the hook. It would have been a washout even if they’d been a bit bolder.
