Actually, I agree that when I watched the 45 minute summary on youtube the other day it tended to look like so much tonking, really. (Do we still use that word? As I say, it's the word I grew up with in the sixties. England had a player called Colin Milburn, whose innings consisted of a tonking session, or he was out in the first over, basically. The antidote to that was Ken Barrington. Watching paint dry was heart-attack stuff, by comparison.)
Not thoroughly satisfying, though, I must admit. It was the closeness of the match that was exciting.