When Stuart Broad said recently that he was addicted to playing for this England team under the uber-positive leadership of Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum, it wasn’t hard to see where the old warhorse was coming from.
It’s now 92 days since that epic one-run defeat against New Zealand in windy Wellington, concluding a year of dramatic transmogrification for England during which their previous run of one win from 17 Tests was replaced by 10 from their past 12.
