Time to call it a night. It’s been a soggy end to a sparky series, an unfitting send-off for three coaches – the interim boss Marcus Trescothick, who, like Lee Carsley, will now hand over to a more lasting successor, plus the fielding coach Carl Hopkinson and the spin-bowling coach Richard Dawson. But they can all get on the plane tomorrow knowing that they have turned things round after a disappointing ODI series. England’s T20 team are back in business. Next up, in just ten days, the Test team begin a series in New Zealand.
Thanks for your company, correspondence and helpful corrections when I got my own Blue Sky handle wrong (eye-roll emoji). Hoping to see you over there, and back here before long.
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And here’s another softly-spoken captain – the winning one. “We’re delighted,” says Jos Buttler. “I thought we played some brilliant cricket early on, started all the games well. Saqib Mahmood set the tone in all those games and [we had] lots of different guys chipping in… In all the formats, there’s a real nice stock of fast bowlers.” Asked about captaining from the outfield, he says: “I really enjoyed it, running around.”
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