Big Trip 09 Highlights - Lord's

The whole trip was permeated with Ashes excitement, and the zenith came thanks to my mate Dave who defied the MCC's absurdly baffling ticketing system and snagged a pair of tickets for day four at Lord's. If you recall, that was the day when England took five early wickets to set up an easy win, only for Clarke and Haddin to counterattack and send us all home muttering about missed opportunities. It all turned out OK in the end, though.

I had never been to Lord's, so that was an experience in itself, but in the context of the Ashes I was utterly thrilled. I could even grudgingly appreciate Clarke's elegant assault on the spinner, but it was the dismissal of Ponting that really brought the house down.