Only 57 days since England’s Cricket World Cup surrender began with a thrashing at the hands of New Zealand, and less than three weeks after they finally found sanctuary in the form of a flight home, a 50-over regeneration that, with hindsight, should have been initiated at some point in the previous four years begins on Sunday.
The new cycle starts with a three-match series against the West Indies, suitable opponents as the one country to have had a comparably poor World Cup, albeit by virtue of not qualifying for it at all.
