Quote:Had this been the final Test, with the series all square, one wonders whether Worrell would have persisted so implacably with speed. He relied on dynamite, rather than guile, for the lengthiness of the operation quite as much for its effectiveness. half a dozen more overs from Sobers and Gibbs might equally have won or lost him the match. Certainly, it could not have been drawn.

But Worrell was a game up, and a draw here was more to his liking than to Dexter's. England, after Old Trafford, had picked up miraculously, but except for Saturday the pitch had always helped seamers. In such conditions the experience of Trueman and Shackleton was worth more than the combined fury of Hall and Griffith. Sobers, one felt, might have been used more, had time not been in it.

A fortnight later, at Edgbaston, his controlled swing had the English batsmen groping much as Davidson had done at Sydney. Again, had it not been for the rain, Gibbs could have spun West Indies to victory, for on Saturday, when Butcher and Worrell were picking up the pieces, Allen turned several quite sharply.
All in all, it was a moment for praise, not recrimination. In five days Test cricket, long the property of connoisseurs, had returned to public consciousness..............................................The City on Tuesday afternoon had been paralysed, tycoons and typists exchanging bulletins from Lord's more urgently than any reports of fluctuating markets. The news on Television was even peremptorily cut short when viewers protested at being reft away from Lord's with two overs to go.