By Tawhid Qureshi

An Ashes Test at Lord’s is normally an occasion to relish, a fixture in the British sporting calendar comparable in stature to Wimbledon or the FA Cup final.
This Test has been different, coming hot on the heels of the damning ICEC report on discrimination in English cricket. The match itself has been something of a barometer on the state of English cricket.
Ask any player, from Barbados to Dhaka and all points in between, where they want to play most and the answer will invariably be Lord’s. The ground is often cited as being unique, the place where so many of cricket...