has found in England an opponent that is determined to match, and perhaps even better his exploits. Through a lack of choice, this England side have awoken from their World Cup hangover and taken the fight straight back to McCullum and his men, which is undoubtedly exactly what McCullum wanted.

Having dragged his own New Zealand side out the trenches of inconsistencies, a team that was always there and there abouts, to within a whisker of world domination, McCullum’s revolution is becoming standard as the world, having resisted change, is starting to follow suit. If even England have joined in and broken free from the chains of tradition, then McCullum can be confident his revolution is here to stay.

As much as England fans are loving this new era ofno holds barred cricket, they are without a doubt lamenting the sheer disappointment that was England’s failure of a World Cup campaign. Only four months later, the English are playing the kind of cricket that could have carried them all the way home in that World Cup. They had seen the potential benefits of McCullum’s revolution from a distance, and were then obliterated by it themselves, but still failed to adapt, which in the end caused their downfall.

Now the adaption has come, they have surrendered themselves to change and the fruits are there for all to see. Massive, ripe fruits too as English cricket ushers in a new era. The sight of Alex Hales punishing bowlers with unearthly ease, the consistency of rock Joe Root, and the return