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Article: Sport: Cricket: The day England turned the world upside down Hard work behind the scenes and calculated boldness have given Nasser Hussain's team the incentive to wrap up the series at the Oval
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- August 20, 2000
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Although all the tickets for the third day of the Headingley Test
had been sold, the ground yesterday was deserted. Not a soul sat on
the Western Terrace, not a Viking nor even a nun, as the rain
spattered over Leeds yesterday morning.
For some of the day tarpaulin covered the pitch, which was
appropriate as it was hardly fit for the public gaze. But then
nobody complains about conditions when England win, except perhaps
the ECB's finance department: they are insured against Test days
being lost to rain and acts of God but not to acts of Gough.
Yet empty as Headingley was, the echoes still reverberated around
the terraces after England's two-day victory, their first for 88
years. Of modern ...