The timing is neat. As Eoin Morgan, leader of English cricket’s last revolution, retires, the riotous transformation under two of his great friends, Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum, is just taking off.
This was a staggering month of performances from England against New Zealand, with players old and new flying under Stokes’s attack-at-all-costs captaincy and McCullum’s ability to remove pressure from a situation.
