A Great Day of Sport

England win the Ashes!

At 12 minutes to six on a glorious sunshine-soft late summer evening at The Oval, England regained the Ashes they had surrendered so abjectly in Australia three winters ago. It had been a hard slog.


Set an unlikely if not impossible 546 to win, Australia had made such a thunderously aggressive start on Saturday evening that a smidgeon of doubt might have crept in. None should have been there. The total would have been hefty on a pristine pitch but on one about which Woody Guthrie might have written songs, it was, any cricketer worth his salt would have said, just not a function of "if" but "when". All out for 348, Australia had lost by a massive margin of 197 runs.)*

And if that wasn't excitement enough, Daddy beat Grandpa at golf for the first time ever - a magnificent 37 points to 24 at Ferndown Forest. (If the image is anything to go by, Daddy seems to be modelling himself on John Daley.)

(Blackburn lost 2-1 to Sunderland, but less said about that the better.)

AMK

* Read the full story