Minutes after Australia’s horror show at Headingley last year, the players file into the visitors’ dressing room shell-shocked about what has just transpired. Nathan Lyon, who has just figured so heavily in one of Test cricket’s most incredible climaxes, has his head covered with a towel, a teammate comforting him. Travis Head looks like he’s seen a ghost.

The Australians are trying to come to terms with what has happened; how they let the opportunity to retain the Ashes slip from their grasp and how a stupendous innings from Ben Stokes took it away from them.

Assessing the emotional damage in the room, Tim Paine stands up and launches into an impromptu and impassioned call to arms, imploring his team to somehow try to compartmentalise what went wrong in a crazy hour and remind them they can still win the series.

“I just want to say, f--- that’s going to f---ing hurt a lot, no doubt, for the next couple of days,” the Australian captain says. “However, as I said to a few of you boys out there, we’ve still got two Test matches. So let this f---ing thing sting.