England’s Joe Root-inspired victory at Lord’s emerged from a familiar first-innings batting wreckage, when they slumped from 59-0 to 141 all out. It was the 14th time they have lost all 10 wickets for fewer than 120 runs in 54 Tests since March 2018, when they speedsubsided to 58 all out in Auckland. They had suffered 14 all-10-for-under-120 collapses in their previous 116 matches, and, even in the notoriously unfruitful 14 years from 1984 to 1997 inclusive, just 14 such megaslumps in 146 Tests.