Of course it was disappointing to bow out in rain-affected circumstances, but they had merely been clinging on by their fingernails - rescued time and again by the bowlers.
Pietersen's side were denied the chance to secure a 5-0 whitewash after rain wiped out the final match on Wednesday.
While his dollars were enjoying the security of the world's safest investment - Treasury bonds have never failed to pay out - most US investors were taking a financial "rain-check" and cancelling their summer vacations.
Sunday's finale was played out in torrential rain in south-west France and Dibowski's clear round piled the pressure on Fox-Pitt.
Duckworth-Lewis, named after the two statisticians who came up with the formula, is the mathematical way that cricket works out the result of a rain-affected match.
The problem is that while clear-cutting sections of rain forest and burning out all the underbrush makes great soil for pastureland, it only does so for about three years.
Useful as it turned out - it was pouring with rain as I left the Conference centre.
But what was most eerie about this was that there were so few people around--because of the rain, few people ventured out onto the street.
As the boats pull up to the dock, an Asian man wearing a yellow-and-white rain coat crouches on a knoll, staring out at the boats.
Batsman Mark Boucher was apparently under the impression the target was 229, not 230, and blocked what turned out to be the last ball of the rain-hit match.
Meanwhile a team of Swiss researchers are harnessing rays of light for an entirely different purpose -- they've figured out a way to create rain clouds by shooting laser beams into the sky.
Virender Sehwag (43 not out) and Gautam Gambhir (20 not out) had helped India reach 68-0 when rain curtailed play.
The UK rail infrastructure company has been shelling out a lot more on account of the rain and flooding - not only on more inspections and more repairs, but it is also the one that ultimately pays the compensation costs when commuters' journeys are disrupted by floods and landslips.
Some of those who had gathered fled to shelter, but others remained determined to see out the whole seven-mile flotilla, even in torrential rain.
He weighed the reptile on a hand scale, pulled out a clipboard -- protected with plastic against the drizzling rain -- and made a series of notes.
Back home now in the beautiful village of Childrey, part of the Lambourn "valley of the racehorse", Fitzgerald bemoans heavy summer rain which last July led to his home being flooded - the sand bags are out again.
These places, which sprung up on the edges of campuses like dandelions after a spring rain, were the meeting places where students, professors, townspeople, out-of-town academics and other terribly interesting folk would meet, by intention or chance, and talk and learn from one another.
When he stepped out on to the turf to warm-up and saw heavy rain making the pitch increasingly treacherous, he could have been forgiven for wishing Robinson - who was not even on the bench - had not been so unceremoniously dumped.
"The rain meant it wasn't much fun, but we were laughing out in the warm-up area because it seemed so unbelievable, " he added.
Hundreds of people in and out of uniform were in the Pentagon courtyard, standing on the spongy, rain-soaked grass as a light mist fell.
The affair, which has inevitably become known as "homeworkgate, " certainly didn't help a struggling Australian side, which crashed to a six-wicket defeat at Mohali even with the first day being entirely wiped out by rain.
There were too many special moments to count minute-long rain showers, sudden rainbows, roadways dusted with flower petals as though nature were rolling out a welcome mat.
But my best memories of the cottage are of the screened-in porch out back, reading in a chaise longue, listening to an afternoon rain shower and, one evening, the insistent call of a whip-poor-will.
Since no dinosaur fossils have ever been found in sediments dating from after this point, conventional wisdom has it that the largest creatures ever to roam the earth must have been cut down in their prime - victims of an asteroid impact that sparked firestorms, acid rain and a nuclear winter that blotted out the sun.
Hamilton set a lap of one minute 25.801 seconds to edge out team-mate Jenson Button by 0.275 secs before a spell of heavy rain hit the Albert Park track.
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Thursday's rain-hit session at the Catalunya circuit saw Australia's Mark Webber record the fastest time after conditions dried out in the afternoon.
That meeting was washed out by the Edinburgh rain, with Hamilton's 60 the highlight of Scotland's 156-9 from a reduced 44 overs.
Mozambican Foreign Minister Leonardo Simao warned that the rain of the past 48 hours could cause rivers to burst again and re-flood areas just beginning to dry out.
Saluted by the Mets and the FDNY before the game, the 43-year-old Rivera, who plans to retire after the season, cracked a big smile as he threw out a ceremonial first pitch to Mets career saves leader John Franco following a 91-minute rain delay at the start.
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