Nathan Lyon was hunched down under the shower, absolutely numb. Even the tears wouldn’t come for half an hour. For the man whose biggest fear is “letting people down” and who gets high-strung on match days, especially when he feels the match hangs on his performance, he felt he had left the team down. England needed two runs to win at Headingley to level the 2019 Ashes after a hair-raising last-wicket partnership between Ben Stokes and Jack Leach when they had a mix-up over a single. Josh Hazlewood lobbed the ball towards Lyon, the bowler. The ball would kiss the grass and skid up and under pressure, with Leach in his peripheral vision scrambling towards him, Lyon would fumble and drop the ball. His empty hands would move towards the stumps when it hit him that all he had cupped was air...