Full 15,000 home were left in anger and dismay by the decision of the bizarre keep players off the field during the rare good weather.
To 16 h 00, arbitrators Aleem Dar and Rod Tucker led the players off - and promptly took their new off without a ball being reversed as another shower arrived. Ten minutes later, with the sun shines, the umpires called tea, despite spectators having only 23.5 point seen in the day to this overs inexplicably.
"It was a terrible decision a day like today to make tea while the Sun was," said the former captain of the England Nasser Hussain. Inevitably, as soon as the tea 20 minutes interval has ended, the rain returned.
Tucker later admitted to the BBC radio that the umpires had erred and should have ordered tea at 4 pm.
In exhibit little that was possible, run poor Andrew Strauss with the bat continued as he took in the first slip for only three off the coast of the left - arm Chanaka Welegedara - the 23rd time it has been rejected by one arm left pace bowler in Tests
But Alastair Cook made 55, tying the record of six consecutive 50 s Test England, and Kevin Pietersen made a return home to the form, scoring 85 as England closed on 195 for 4.
Pietersen, said: "it is frustrating at all (to miss by one hundred).". To play the way that I played today has given me much happiness. »
"To have returned to the essential and hit the ball right and kept entering the strains opposed, for me, was brilliant." If you had told me this morning I would get 85 and to play the way I played I would have taken. »
Pietersen defended his captain Strauss. "Leading front and done a good job for the team", he said.
"It also seeks hard than ever and you are never alone knock from scoring runs."
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