UK News 18-08-2000 Fourth Test: England Let Lead Slip who: England cricket team what: Concede five wickets after tea where: Headingley, LEEDS when: Yesterday snippet: "England were laughing when they took tea yesterday," says Michael Henderson in The Telegraph. "They had just bowled out the West Indies in 49 overs... Then it was their turn to bat and, by stumps, the tourists had answered with five wickets of their own". "Craig White completed a personal journey of great emotion at Headingley on Thursday, producing Test-best bowling figures in front of his home fans," says David Hytner for Express Sport Live. "He returned figures of 5-57 as the West Indies were shot out for 172 in the fourth match of the Cornhill series". "Until yesterday, all life had allowed White had been six years in and out of the England side, late call-ups to disconsolate touring parties, and endless carping that he would never make the grade," says David Hopps in The Guardian. But it was "reckless batting, much more than brilliant bowling, impossible swing or the treacherous variations of bounce on a dry pitch, that undid most of the West Indies players," comments Christopher Martin-Jenkins in The Times. "Once Ambrose started, the West Indies total did not look so small," says The Sun`s John Etheridge. "He persuaded Marcus Trescothick to edge a catch to slip and then Mike Atherton did the same. Cue the widest grin in Leeds and copious high fives as all-time great Ambrose became the fifth man to pass 400 Test wickets". [... more]

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