Nottinghamshire won their second T20 Blast title in the last four years ©Getty
For the best part of two and half days, Birmingham was submerged under a deluge of English rain. It rained, it was grey and it was cold. And then it rained some more. Finals Day was pushed into a reserve day for the first time in its history and the reserve day was given a reserve day. Nobody was surprised. It is October for crying out loud. But suddenly, in a final surreal moment to end this most surreal of summers, the rain stopped, play miraculously started and Edgbaston was bathed in the most unexpected bright sunshine. In the blink of an eye, Birmingham had become Barbados. Well, almost.
The umpires calculated that they could squeeze in two semi-finals of eleven overs a side and then a final of 16 overs per innings. It wasn't quite T20 but after a day and a half watching seals, otters and whales swim past the ground, it would do. The ground staff had done a miraculous job to get the ground fit for play. And at the end of proceedings, under dark skies and in single digit temperatures, Nottinghamshire were
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