Winning by 4 wickets, chasing 213, when one of your openers has scored a 40-ball 80 isn’t a convincing win.

This England team is not exactly short of batting down the order though, is it?

A fairly convincing win.

Some promising looking youngsters in the Ireland set up but they have a lot to learn still.

78/4 now from 13.4 overs.

They do realise it’s not a T20I, don’t they?

Get Dom Sibley in there to shore things up.

Much as a picture often results in a thousand words on this site, we’ll leave that one to speak for itself.

Tremendous moment, thanks Ged. Almost worth sitting through the fifteen-second unskippable car advert for.

I think it’s time to come clean about this. I know I said I was there, but that was just to impress everyone here. I guess I thought that if I said I was there, people here would like me more. I mean, it would have been an amazing thing, being there, on that morning, seeing it all play out in front of you, Broad on fire, the Aussies rolling, the beer flowing, the sun shining. It would have been the most amazing thing ever, and would put anyone who actually was there on a pedestal of cricket watching that nobody else could even approach. It would make them, literally, the greatest person in the history of the world.

Indeed Nursery Ender, your memory serves you well.

It is well worth watching this little ECB vid of the denouement of that match, if for no other reason than to see the expression on Darren Effing Lehmann’s defeated face.

https://youtu.be/6I3mS5FbN7c

The Lehmann moment is at 1:24/1:25 and is well worth a freeze frame. Possibly even a picture worthy of an entire KC piece…not that KC does requests of course.

Wasn’t that the same test that the final wicket fell, securing England’s win, when Brad Effing Haddin failed to walk for an edge to the keeper but was given out on the DRS review that England had in hand because they didn’t have a Shane Effing Watson to burn them?

Further, I realise that was the year that Charley the Gent got more runs than England in the Edgbaston test, which was really saying something given that England scored over 700 in their first (only) innings.

KC match report and cricinfo scorecard all linked here:

http://ianlouisharris.com/2011/08/11/two-wheels-on-my-roller-but-i-keep-rolling-along-england-v-india-days-one-and-two-edgbaston-10-11-august-2011/

Again Broad was in the wickets but did not bat.

Great memories, these, Ameya, thanks.