Later, when my parents had come home and neighbors began to troop in to say ndo sorry and to snap their fingers and heave their shoulders up and down, I sat alone in my room upstairs and realized what the queasiness in my gut was: Nnamabia had done it, I knew.
Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi, who was caught in the deep for two after a Twenty20-style heave, responded to the defeat by announcing his retirement from Test cricket following next week's second Test at Headingley.