Now the wheel has turned full circle, it's time to be ruthless, time to get angry.
When England lost to New Zealand in 1999, and new captain Nasser Hussain was booed on the balcony, The Oval was Dunces' Corner. England were the worst Test team in world cricket. Somehow, we had managed to pick a team containing four No.11 batsmen - Andy Caddick, Alan Mullally, Phil Tufnell and Ed Giddins – and be surprised that we lost. More rabbits than Watership Down. Thanks to Hussain's alliance with a new coach, Duncan Fletcher, then Michael Vaughan's thrilling Ashes-winning crusade and Sir Andrew Strauss harnessing the winds of change, England made it to No.1 in the charts by 2011.
Now the return journey to the is complete. The 10-wicket defeat by West Indies in Grenada was a staggering triumph of complacency by a team annihilated 4-0 in the Ashes earlier in the winter (and it would have been 5-0 if last man Jimmy Anderson had not blocked the last ball nervelessly in Sydney).
