By Richard Edwards

Setting the trend: Hedley Verity was an England Ashes hero at Lord’s way back in 1934
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LORD’S may be perhaps the most storied ground in the world cricket – but for England in the Ashes it offers an almost unprecedented tale of woe.
Only once in the last century did England win a Test against their greatest foe at the Home of Cricket, with Hedley Verity’s 15 wickets in 1934 providing the joy of triumph that no England team experienced again until 75 years later.
Even by English cricket’s standards, that’s a drough...