England are currently playing New Zealand in a warm-up ODI series before the two teams meet in Gujarat to kick off the World Cup roadshow in October. It has been eight years since Eoin Morgan’s Three Lions played Brendon McCullum’s Kiwis in a bilateral series that marked a turning point in the former’s approach to the 50-over game.
The game at a sunny Edgbaston in June 2015 wasn’t as memorable as the dramatic Super Over finish in the 2019 final between the two teams, but it was a vital staging post of a four-year journey. The first signs of Bazball were seen well before McCullum became England’s Test coach in May 2022.
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