As Alex Hales and Jos Buttler embraced, having trounced India in Adelaide, you saw two men to whom lifting the same trophy in Melbourne on Sunday would mean notably different things.
For Hales, this is a tournament all about reprieve and redemption, after missing out on the generation-defining World Cup win on home soil in 2019. For Buttler, it is about legacy, the chance to add to that title, to rule the world again — and this time as captain.
