New England white-ball coach Matthew Mott is already fighting to paper over the quacks of too many ducks among his batting big guns.
England's top-order powerhouse was undermined by six 'blobs' in the 2-1 Royal London one-day series defeat by India, who had won the Twenty20 triple-header by the same margin.
As another 50-over trilogy starts against South Africa at the Emirates Riverside on Tuesday, Mott's axis with skipper Jos Buttler must ensure early dropped stitches do not lead to wholesale unravelling of World Cup-winning captain Eoin Morgan's close-knit empire.
