ENGLAND V SOUTH AFRICA

What a series so far! Records set in every game.

Game 1 - England win thier eighth cosecutive test match - their longest ever run of victories.

Game 2 - England score 139 in their first innings, and 570-7 in their second. The difference is the biggest ever difference between innings scores by the same team in a test match. South Africa manage to hang on until bad light stopped play early and the match is drawn, leaving England as the only international cricekt team to go through 2004 unbeaten.

Game 3 - South Africa come back strongly and thump England, who bat dismally. In England's second innings the top scorer in no.11 Steve Harmison. to emphasise how feeble England's batting was this is the first time in test cricket that a no.11 has top scored, and apparently only the 7th time ever in all first-class cricket.

Now the series moves to Johannesburg next Thursday. I can't wait!