What a lovely few days for Test cricket and the duels it produces. Freddie Flintoff got all riled up when Jacques Kallis' dismissal was reversed. Here's King Cricket's take:

This was no less a batsman than Jacques Kallis too - easily one of the best Test batsmen in the world and most definitely someone who doesn’t surrender his wicket easily. He’d actually got himself in as well. He’d just passed 50.

Even before the non-dismissal Flintoff was firing. Yorker, bouncer, bouncer, no run, yorker onto the boot… Not out.

At this point Andrew Flintoff summoned down the angel of pure bilious rage and punched his lights out, stole his bag of rage and put it to use.

Here's the Flinster in his pomp:

Will calls it a magical performance. And Patrick Kidd compares it some other great cricketing duels.

Meanwhile, in Sri Lanka, not one, no two, but three superb displays of cricket skill. Virender Sehwag taking on the Lankans all by himself with the bat:

Murali. Vaas. Mendis. A pitch with one wet end and one cracked end. Rain. Reason. Virender Sehwag defied them all.

And Harbhajan Singh rediscovered off-spin bowling:

Harbhajan though ensured that such talk was at least kept in abeyance. Soon after tea, bowling from the Fort End, he started to tease and torment with both turn and bounce. Apart from a seven-for on a dubious pitch at Kanpur in April, he hasn't done anything of note in ages, and this was a welcome return to the attacking approach that served him so well in home series against Australia in 2001 and '04. Like Mendis, he didn't flight the ball too much, and deliveries bowled at 90 km/hr hurried batsmen into mistakes.

By no means least, Dileep also covers Mendis' taking wickets all around Sehwag:

Sandwiched between the two was a sterling performance from Ajantha Mendis, whose carrom ball once again skittled India and eclipsed Muttiah Muralitharan. It says much about India's batting that two partnerships added 267 of the 329 that they made. The other batsmen may as well not have turned up.

At 278 for 4, India were well on course for 400 and more when Mendis produced his special flicked delivery. It appeared to stop on VVS Laxman, and he looked aghast after he pulled it straight to midwicket. Laxman had been largely untroubled till then, both by Mendis and Murali, but his exit exposed the brittle lower order.