With frustration growing in the field, Pietersen produced one sharply spinning off-break that almost squeezed through Sarwan, but it looked as though the closest England would come to dislodging the Guyanese was when he crashed a drive painfully into his inside leg.

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And after a break of a year or so caused by the recession, both are out on the dance floor again, spinning to a tune that if anything is getting faster.

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