McCullum has a chance to breed that culture in a fresh group of players ready to grow and win again. England's last two great rebuilds, white-ball in 2015 and red-ball in 2022, started from rock bottom. With a few more losses, it could be third time lucky.

There was no way back from that, despite Jamie Smith's 49, and Australia cantered to its 14th successive ODI win, a run that has been exceeded only by another Australian side, Ricky Ponting's World Cup winners of 2003, who achieved 21 on the run.

Playing against England in England is always tough so we’re really pleased all round. We bowled really nicely. To restrict them to 270 on that pitch was a good job. We lost early wickets in the Powerplay and that killed us.