runs directly from” the England captaincy of Eoin Morgan in the white-ball form of the game who had overseen a period of success for England, including victory in the 2019 Cricket World Cup. During Morgan’s first summer of captaincy of the England one day team he had urged his team to adopt more of the no-fear approach of the touring New Zealand side captained by Baz McCullum. For his part, Morgan told cricket journalist Firdose Moonda of ESPN Cricinfo that cricket from the Ben Stokes-Brendon McCullum partnership was "some of the best Test match series I've ever watched in my life" and that it was in the process of altering the notions and ideas that had been in place since the inaugural Test in 1877, saying "What England have proved this year [2022] is that you can play Test cricket in that [T20] fashion…It's made for unbelievable entertainment. It's created a new level of interest and proved that you don't have to play Test cricket one way, particularly as a batter, which for, I suppose the 150 years, has always been one way." Ben Stokes said the style was discussed from his very first meeting as captain with McCullum, with Stokes telling the media that “I have been thinking stuff like that but the first chat with Baz was ‘yeah we can do it this way – why not?’… It has taken away all the external pressures of playing international sport. There’s enough on individuals and as a team as it is but taking all the other stuff away is why everything is so relaxed, calm and enjoyable at the moment.” He used the example of bowling at Rishabh Pant when he scored a century at greater than a run-a-ball, saying “The more we see players like that succeed, the more the negativity around that type of Test cricket will eventually die out because it is so exciting to watch, because cricket is an entertainment business. Yes, you want results but you want people to enjoy watching a spectacle. Yes, cricket has always been a spectacle but it’s about doing it differently now. So yeah, cheers Rishabh.” Former Australian fast bowler Glenn McGrath drew parallels with the style of the McCullum-Stokes England team with his own Australian cricket team of the 1990s, but boosted by the changes brought about by white ball cricket, saying ”The team I was lucky enough