Just when this Ashes series might do with a cooling off period, it charges on, Australia’s 43-run victory at Lord’s less than a day old but the Third Test at Headingley — which starts on Thursday — already firmly in view.
England head to Leeds 2-0 down and spewing, focus surely sharpened by a (wrongful) sense of injustice and, more pertinently, the miracle task that now lies before them in trying to become only the second team ever to fight back and win 3-2.
