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In the end, England were not able to produce a third great escape to win the Test series here in South Africa. But had they held on for a couple of extra hours at the Wanderers on Sunday they might have just managed to do it.

Johannesburg was hit by a huge thunderstorm in the afternoon which would have washed out any play after tea - and on Monday the city was hit by heavy rain and dark cloud which may have made conditions impossible on what would have been the scheduled final day.

Whether it would have been right for England to win the series is obviously highly debatable although this morning's newspapers here in South Africa leave you in little doubt about what they think.

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I am writing this blog from what must be the highest Test Match Special commentary box in the world.

Not only are we situated right at the top of the tallest stand at the famous , but being here on the Highveld in Johannesburg we are already about 2000m above sea level.

We will certainly get an amazing view of what will hopefully be the exciting climax that this series deserves.

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Happy New Year from the ´óÏó´«Ã½ cricket team - let's hope from an England point of view that 2010 starts in a similar fashion to how the old one ended.

It was with the South African collapse on the fourth afternoon proving dramatic and ultimately decisive.

happened to be in the summariser's chair as many of those wickets fell and I'm not sure I have ever seen him so excited.

I almost had to prise him out of the seat as he turned around to beg "captain let me stay on please, I'm taking all these wickets".

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