When it was all over, Sam Warburton had one word left in him: “Wow.” It echoed around the ground, the crowd quiet until they realised that Warburton did not know what else to say, and his pause was overwhelmed by raucous applause. Warburton stood silent a moment longer, then added: “What a Test match.”
Soon afterwards, Kieran Read was called up from the other side of the presentation stage. The two men took the little silver trophy between them, each with one hand on one handle, and raised it together. When they brought it back down, Warburton tugged it one way, Read yanked it the other. They laughed, and slapped each other’s backs, neither quite ready to quit fighting for it.
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