As so often in English cricket, it took an outsider to say the quiet bit out loud. Fleming's priority is to help the English game, not just himself.

If there were any doubt before this morning's events in Rawalpindi, there can be none now. Harry Brook is the best all-format batsman in the world, and few bowlers know how to handle him.

Brendon McCullum's men had set a huge score of 429/4, with Harry Brook hitting 202 and recording the fastest double hundred in ODI history.

Jimmy Anderson's long career is finally at an end after Lancashire declined to offer him a new contract for the 2027 season, when he will turn 45.

Sir James Anderson is set to retire from cricket - but where does he rank among the finest ever to play for England? Here, Wisden Editor LAWRENCE BOOTH picks his top 10.

LAWRENCE BOOTH: The groundstaff had only clear 10 days before the first Test against New Zealand in June, when a surface of variable bounce was rated 'unsatisfactory' by the ICC.

RICHARD GIBSON: Harry Brook said afterwards that his side were 'pretty happy' being set a target of 303 - and what would have represented their third successful highest chase in Asia.

Chris Woakes has accused the ECB of 'bottling' the chance to project England's historic World Cup win with an open top bus parade.

One opening batsman whose career trajectory is heading in the opposite direction, however, is Aneurin Donald, of Derbyshire.

RICHARD GIBSON: Rew, 18, comes into a 16-strong squad that is missing the injured Jos Buttler and will be without the multi-format bowlers for the second half of the four-week tour.

RICHARD GIBSON: Daily Mail Sport analyses the key questions behind England's increase in central contracts and the new make-up of the Test and white-ball backroom teams.