Too late

Sigh. India break the sixth-wicket partnership a 100 runs too late (and pick up another wicket on the next ball). Given the pumped-up reaction at the fall of Prior and Tremlett's wickets, one would have thought India could have shown a little more gumption earlier. This match is gone, and only weather can now save India. Apologies if that sounds excessively pessimistic, but I'm just being a good old-fashioned empiricist, making predictions on the basis of having observed certain law-like regularities in the past. Anyway, Zak on a hat-trick, so let me turn back to the cricket.