For the most-hyped Ashes series in a generation, and an opener that from first ball had lived up to billing, here was a fitting finale, one sainted to rank alongside Edgbaston 2005 and Headingley 2019 as the century’s most dramatic.
These players were raised on the former series but many lived the second through its core, few more painfully than Nathan Lyon, who fumbled with the match at his mercy, and Pat Cummins, whose final ball was cut away, cut away for four.
