For the first time in three days, weather did not intervene.
In a match now almost certain to be completed inside three days, weather permitting, Durham will resume needing a further 154 to win with seven second innings wickets standing.
If you have five days' good weather, there should be a result.
Five days later, weather permitting, a million square feet of tangerine banners will be unfurled from the tops of these 16ft-high gates to create, according to the artists, "a golden river appearing and disappearing through the bare branches".
In traditional long forms of cricket, played over three, four or five days, bad weather has historically been regarded as a fortune of war, leading to legendary ill luck, as when the Hampshire team was denied an English county championship in 1974 when its last four days of play were rained out.
By Jenna Krajeski December 30, 2008 I spent the holidays in Boston, where, in the span of five days, the weather went from a dense winter chill — roads dangerously narrowed by banked snow, icicles the size of swords dangling above our doorway — to a balmy fifty degrees.
I spent the holidays in Boston, where, in the span of five days, the weather went from a dense winter chill roads dangerously narrowed by banked snow, icicles the size of swords dangling above our doorway to a balmy fifty degrees.
I spent the holidays in Boston, where, in the span of five days, the weather went from a dense winter chill — roads dangerously narrowed by banked snow, icicles the size of swords dangling above our doorway — to a balmy fifty degrees.
If you were to pitch Test cricket now as a global sport – five days of weather-bound, opaque and often imperceptible struggle – you wouldn't get it past the first audition.
Five days of dry weather and cricket had rendered the pitch abrasive, with some used pitches adding to the potential.
