ENG VS AUS - 1st Test, The Ashes 2019

Just a gentle reiteration, from staring down the barrel at 122/8 on the first morning to inflicting a 251-run thumping. Whodathunk? Such was this rollercoaster, leaking out an entire range of emotions, from dismay to anger to joy to helplessness to ecstasy. And add a singing Barmy Army to that. Ahh, delicious. So, I was Vineet Anantharaman scribbling it out for you and on behalf of Akshay Maanay, Nikhil Jadhav, Varun Dixit and our scorer, Vinod it's time we relive this in our heads. Until Lord's, with hopefully eleven fit players on all five days and the cheat code to get rid of Steve Smith, ta ta!!

Okay, so we've waited enough. Clearly the broadcasters aren't showing us the presentations. In case you couldn't figure it out, and do get yourself checked if you couldn't, Steven Smith is the MoM.

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Here's a stats round up, courtesy the usual, Deepu Narayanan

Biggest wins after conceding a 1st innings lead of 90+
251 Aus v Eng Edgbaston 2019 (Lead: 90) *
233 SA v Aus Jo'burg 1966/67 (126)
197 Aus v SL Galle 2003/04 (161)
193 NZ v SL Wellington 2014/15 (135)

Australia winning in England after conceding a 1st innings lead
The Oval, 1882 (Lead 38)
Leeds, 1948 (38)
Manchester, 1961 (177)
Trent Bridge, 1981 (6)
Edgbaston, 2019 (90) *

- This is the first instance of a visiting side winning a Test in Edgbaston after conceding a first innings lead.

England losing a home Test after a 1st innings lead of 90 or more:
177 v Aus Manchester 1961
90 v WI Trent Bridge 1966
108 v SL Leeds 2014
90 v Aus Edgbaston 2019

There have been just three instances in Ashes Tests in the last 100 years of a side being eight down for 122 or fewer in the 1st innings and still ending up winning the Test
99/8 Eng vs Aus, SCG, 1954/55
98/8 Eng vs Aus, SCG, 1978/79
122/8 Aus vs Eng, Edgbaston, 2019

Biggest wins by runs in Edgbaston:
256 Eng vs WI 2004
251 Aus vs Eng 2019 *
217 Eng vs WI 1963
205 Eng vs NZ 1958
141 Eng vs Pak 2016

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Harsha Bhogle: Absolutely brilliant from Nathan Lyon. Support bowler in the first innings, rises to be match-winner in the second. Plays both roles so well.

15:15 Local Time: Start the dismantling. Bring in the bulldozer. There aren't many better ways to avenge 18 winless years of wait on this ground, and four days of constant booing. To put how bad this hammering has been into context, in this innings, all of England's eleven batsmen put together could only manage four runs more than what Steven Smith scored by himself. The chase was never really on, the survival through the day by no means was going to be easy, but England simply gave up. Rory Burns fell early, Joe Root fell twice unofficially in umpire Wilson's book, before Lyon officially started his show. Roy, Denly, Stokes, Moeen, Broad, everyone played their part in adding to his legend. But he will be forgotten, Cummins' four-fer will be forgotten, Wade's century will be forgotten. This was all Smith through and through. Two centuries, either competing with the other for being the more dominant, having officially crushed eleven English souls under. Hang around, we'll get you the presentations ..

Pat Cummins to Woakes, out Caught by Smith!! There goes England's fortress -- in Paine's words, the sixteenth most intimidating ground in the world, and in poetic justice, it is Steven Smith who grabs the last word. Cummins has his fourth, banging it in short. And Woakes has clearly unearthed a big visible chink in his batting armoury, messing up yet another short delivery. It stuck in the pitch, spat in awkwardly and then fended up off the fending gloves to second slip. Yes, HE's waiting there .. Woakes c Smith b Pat Cummins 37(54) [4s-7]

Pat Cummins to Woakes, THATS OUT!! Caught!!

Pat Cummins to Woakes, no run, quite an ugly pull, reminiscent of what he did to a short one in the first innings, pulling from in front of his face with his eyes closed

Pat Cummins to Woakes, no run, tummy-lined. Woakes swats it away, no-fuss, fine leg

Pat Cummins [11.0-3-32-3] is back into the attack

Lyon to Anderson, FOUR, talk about this safe edging technique. Anderson defends, the spin gets big, takes the outside edge, and ensures it flies just wide of second slip - Smith, again ..

Lyon to Woakes, 1 run, another dance down, this time managing to whip it safely into mid-wicket. Okay Jimmy, one ball ..

Lyon to Woakes, no run, quite a scooter off the pitch, sneaking under Woakes' already-cramped-cut