MONDAY 19 AUGUST 2019

Ashes series stirs to life as

Australia preserve lead

Joe Root looks on after Australia survive the final day (AFP/Getty)

JONATHAN LIEW

AT LORD’S

After five transcendent days at Lord’s, it felt like everything and nothing had changed. Nothing because as
stumps were drawn the score remained 1-0, Australia imperfectly retaining the upper hand, England still
searching for answers. Everything because as the teams decamp north to Leeds ahead of next week’s third
Test, it’s hard to escape the sensation that this is now a substantially, spectacularly different encounter to
the one that began.

Scars have been unsealed, knowns made unknown. And above all, a series that seemed almost to creep into

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