Ashes 2015: England show the mettle to strike back hard in third Test

Into the Edgbaston counselling chamber they filed, one by one in their Baggy Green caps mumbling incoherently about a reaper called Jimmy. It was, at least from the English perspective, a deliciously grim inversion of the Lord’s debacle, batsmen shredded by a bowler who would not be contained, and who in the end was taking wickets by reputation as well as merit.