You have to go back to 1888, the days of WG Grace and the summer when Jack the Ripper was terrorising London’s East End, for the only two-day Test match at Lord’s. This is the 139th Test at the ground since Percy McDonnell’s Australians beat England by 61 runs and for a good while it looked like a second quickfire affair was in the offing.
England’s first innings had fizzled away in the morning, albeit with just enough tail-end fiddling to turn 116 for seven into 141 all out and a lead of nine runs.
