Perspective : The Day Cricket Passed My Test ; Cricket, Lovely Cricket - Especially Now That England Have the Ashes Back. Chief Sports Writer Hyder Jawad Looks Back On the Success of the Sporting Summer

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It is somehow fitting that the sporting image that will define this outrageous summer has less to do with sport and more to do with the weather. Well, this is Britain. And this is cricket.

As thousands of England fans opened their umbrellas at The Oval on Sunday, hastening the rain and dreaming of an Ashes victory that was once deemed improbable, one was touched by the choreography.

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Perspective : The Day Cricket Passed My Test ; Cricket, Lovely Cricket - Especially Now That England Have the Ashes Back. Chief Sports Writer Hyder Jawad Looks Back On the Success of the Sporting Summer

Appreciate, too, the paradox. We go to these events in our thousands ostensibly to witness the sport but really to embrace the patriotic harmony that comes with victory - especially victory against Australia.

And if the weather helps to provide us wi...

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