This year's Ashes is on track to be the tightest Test series of all time, with data showing the first three matches have made for the closest start to one in cricket history.
Australia and England's players will re-emerge at Old Trafford next Wednesday, with both teams enjoying a breather this week after a chaotic month of cricket.
Such is the tight nature of the two teams, England have averaged 32.89 runs per wicket with the bat, as opposed to Australia's 31.89.
But the level pegging goes well beyond that.
Prior to this tour, only twice in history had a series had three Tests decided by 50 runs or less or three wickets or less.
Those were the 1907-08 Ashes and India's tour of Australia in 1977-78, with the close matches spread out.
This Ashes battle has already achieved that, with Australia's two-wicket win at Edgbaston, 43-run win at Lord's and England's three-wicket victory at Headingley.
Those figures also don't take into account the contrasting styles of the two teams, or the drama associated with the final day at Lord's.
"They've been great viewing. It's tense out there," Australia's captain Pat Cummins said.
Cummins has been at the centre of all three finishes, batting at Edgbaston and bowling at Lord's and Headingley.
"I actually really enjoy being out there and feeling like you've got some kind of control over the situation and you're in the middle of it," he said.
"It's actually 100-times worse when you're in the change room, you wish you could do something about it, but you can't."
The 2005 Ashes is largely viewed as the greatest series of this century, but it began with a lopsided 239-run victory for Australia at Lord's in the first Test.
The same could be said for the 2001 Border-Gavaskar Trophy, where Australia marginally missed out on a drought-breaking series win in India after a big victory in the first Test.
India's series win in Australia in 2020-21 also had a one-sided Boxing Day Test after the tourists were all out for 36 in Adelaide, while the 1981 Ashes were brilliant but still had a slow-moving second Test at Lord's.
So far in this series, there has barely been a lopsided day's play or slow session from the moment Zak Crawley crunched Cummins through the covers to start the first Test.
Record numbers have tuned in in England on Sky Sports, while every day has been sold out at the Test venues.
An England win at Old Trafford next week would make for the first Ashes in 86 years to go to a decider at 2-2, with everything to play for at The Oval.
And as far as Michael Vaughan is concerned that would immediately put this series above the 2005 one he captained England in.
"If we can get to the Oval at 2-2, with one to play it will be the greatest Test series in my lifetime," Vaughan wrote in the UK's Telegraph this week.
