Oh Lord's: Tail Comes Good But Falls 22 Short

IT was as if the final day was on slow burn. It was cooking, but slowly; one run at a time across one over after another. Runs were coming in ones.

- FIROZ MIRZA @London

The boundaries had dried up. Yet, the capacity crowd kept egging the players. This was Test cricket garbed in its finest orb.

It was getting increasingly irritating for Ben Stokes and Co as Ravindra Jadeja and Nos. 10 and 11—Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj—were trying to enact one of modern cricket's greatest heists. What looked improbable at lunch looked promising by tea.