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From his seat in the press section, 27-year-old Reginald Shirley Brooks has a perfect view of the game

and is scribbling notes about the action into a small

notepad. Out on the field, two England batsmen are slogging it out against their Australian

opposition. It is a warm day and the sun beams down the players who regularly pause to

wipe their faces and necks with handkerchiefs pulled out from trouser pockets.

For most of the afternoon, England has seemed on course for victory.

But now, only two English batsmen out of eleven are left.

If either of them is bold, caught or run out before ten runs are scored,

England will lose.

And the crowd knows it. Mostly English supporters, they shift uneasily behind the boundary rope.

Reginald leans forward, his pencil scratching across the page as he looks between the scoreboard and pitch.

With the batsmen having scraped together another few single runs, the gap is closing.

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