It was not even 18 months ago that England were carting the Netherlands all over Amstelveen en route to a world record score of 498 for four, adding what now looks a final piece to their legacy as one of the game’s great 50-over sides.
Even in that triumph there were signs that the times were a changing for the 2019 crop: Jason Roy made one off seven balls, then watched the rest of the top four blast rapid hundreds; Eoin Morgan came in fifth and was out for a first-ball duck. By the end of the series, the captain had retired.
