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The World Cup caught fire on Sunday when co-hosts India and England shared a tie in one of the most thrilling matches ever

seen after a record-breaking 676-run slug-fest went down to the last ball.It was not a game for the faint-hearted and those

Indian fans who left the stadium early thinking their team was doomed three-quarters of the way through will surely kick themselves

forever after missing a truly classic finale.First India, then England looked to have a complete stranglehold on this Group B encounter

in a power struggle which showed off to its very best the supposedly dull and outdated 50-over version of the game.

Yet this was a match with just as much high-octane excitement as anything served up by cricket's brash Twenty20 format.

In the end, England's tail-ender Graeme Swann was left with the task of hitting at least two runs off the final delivery of paceman

Munaf Patel after some seven hours and 99.5 overs of exhaustingly absorbing cricket.He did his best but Patel cannily pitched the ball

full and Swann could only jam it down to mid-off for a single which left England tied with India on 338 with two wickets left.

So the spoils were shared but both sides will walk away with thoughts full of what might have been - and what easily might not have been.

"In some ways we're happy and in some ways we're distraught.... but in some ways we're privileged to play in a game like that," England skipper

Andrew Strauss said.His Indian counterpart Mahendra Singh Dhoni added: "The Indian team will be thinking that you score 340 odd runs and

still you have not won the game and the England team will be thinking that you get off to such a good start and get so close to the end

and yet you can't finish it off.

"Both teams will be a bit disappointed but they will be relieved to take one point."

 

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