10 dropped catches ...

goes up with 28 missed tackles (Bulls v Blues) as a statistic I'll remember for a while. Much praise is being heaped on the Lankans for saving the test, and while they deserve some kudos for the way they scrapped it out, England more than contributed to the drawn result with enough missed chances to have bowled SL out 3 times, let alone twice.

Another difficult test to get right with betting in-running; at least this time I come out with some dosh rather than contributing to someone else's retirement fund. Having spent Days 3 and 4 wondering how the hell I was going to get out of the shit with a loss on an England win, I entered Day 5 with a large profit on the draw and a small loss on the Poms - and then proceeded to chuck away a good chunk of said profit converting it to an England win having convinced myself at lunch when SL were 8 down that an England win was more probable than the 1.25-ish odds they were at the time. Another spectacular in-hindsight fucked up decision.