When England lifted the T20 World Cup in November 2022, they became the first ever men''s team to be One-Day International and Twenty20 world champions simultaneously. In English sport, triumphs aren''t just rare – they also tend to be followed by a collapse. England''s white-ball cricket side was different: a team that followed scaling the summit by doing so again. They became, as Australia''s captain put it, “the benchmark” for the rest of the world.