This is a great point raised by @The_BeardMan_. In the following sequence of tweets, I’ll try to see just why has England seen a spurt of white ball bashers & what has changed. I’d love for some of my statistically-minded friends to contribute with the statistics here (1/n) https://twitter.com/the_beardman_/status/1278593663111585792

It’s often said that the most beautiful things emerge from ruins. England’s white ball revolution was the effect of one such ruinous period. The 2015 World Cup & the shambolic displays of that English side, be it against New Zealand or the epic meltdown against Bangladesh (2/n)

Which sealed their exit from the World Cup, was the lowest that English cricket could ever have fallen to. The team that went to Australia still had a bunch of test-specialists, their coach in Peter Moores was still wedded to the old days of playing white-ball cricket (3/n)

ECB then took matters into their own hands by forcing a lot of these players out of the white-ball setup, be it Anderson, Broad, Bell, Bopara, Gary Ballance & many more of their ilk. They decided to repose their faith in Eoin Morgan as the captain, despite the disaster (4/n)

And let him mould a side in his image. To further lend white-ball expertise to this side, they roped in an Aussie (of all people) as their head coach in Trevor Bayliss & Paul Farbrace as his assistant coach. Bayliss has a proven track record in coaching good white-ball (5/n)

Sides like Sri Lanka in the post-Tom Moody era, New South Wales, Sydney Sixers in the BBL & closer home, winning 2 IPL titles with KKR in 2012 & 2014, with Morgan having seen Bayliss’ transformative nature firsthand while at KKR in 2012 when they had won the title (6/n)

This trio of Morgan-Bayliss-Farbrace was to be the new power centre of this changing side. Another major decision that the ECB made was to appoint former captain Andrew Strauss as their Director of Cricket & they gave him the mandate of completely revamping how England (7/n)

looked at their white-ball cricket setup both domestically and internationally. The Bayliss appointment was also a result of Strauss' thinking. Strauss realised that in the modern-day era of white-ball cricket, England were extremely far behind as there was no (8/n)

degree of innovation that their batsmen were encouraged to do in this format, be it on the county-level or on the international front. Thus, it was realised that England now had to reward adventurous & aggressive stroke-makers & ensure that these players get their chance (9/n)

Their first white-ball series was against the World Cup finalists that year, New Zealand & the England selectors decided to punt on the likes of Jason Roy, Alex Hales & Sam Billings to enter into the England ODI setup in this new age, with Roy & Hales asked to open (10/n)

The rewards of this new adventurousness were immediate, as England racked up multiple scores in the region of 350-400 runs. This series also saw Morgan & Bayliss decide that for such a brand of aggressive cricket, they needed to lengthen their batting order (11/n)

Thus, they plumped for the leg-spinner Adil Rashid to be the lead spinner of this side, not least because he could be handy with the bat, but it also saw them recall Liam Plunkett into the England white-ball setup later that year, but also give chances to the likes of (12/n)

David Willey, Tom Curran, Jofra Archer & also trial Sam Curran, Craig Overton, Toby Roland-Jones, Liam Dawson over the coming years, not only because they were showing immense bowling pedigree & promise in the county circuit, but also because they were all handy batsmen (13/n)

who could be relied upon to biff a few deliveries into the stands. The encouragement that was now being provided to the likes of Roy, Jonny Bairstow, Billings, Hales in the national setup as well as the backing being given to Jos Buttler's adventurousness, meant that (14/n)

a lot of the batsmen in the county circuit also now saw their chances brighten to be able to represent England in this new age. This saw the likes of Dawid Malan make his way into England's T20 side & now make himself a permanent fixture there, but also led to the (15/n)

emergence of batsmen like Liam Livingstone, Dan Lawrence, Sam Hain, Ed Pollock, all of whom were getting noticed by the powers-that-be for their boldness in strokeplay & that also created the pathway for a Tom Banton to emerge through the ranks & storm into the England (16/n)

side in the recent few months. Another gift of the Strauss tenure was that he actively encouraged England players to go & play various T20 leagues across the world in order to help England become a better white-ball side, with particular emphasis on players going to IPL (17/n)

and the BBL. In 2016, Ben Stokes started raving about the improvement that Jos Buttler had started to display in his range of strokes & the heightened sense of his adventurous batting streaks after Buttler's first season of IPL at the Mumbai Indians that season (18/n)

That influenced Stokes to also take part in the IPL next season & it saw the Rising Pune Supergiant(s) shell out a massive Rs. 14.5 crores in the 2017 IPL Auctions & he emerged out of there as the Most Valuable Player of the season. That auction also saw RCB shell out (19/n)

Rs. 12.5 crores on English left-arm pacer Tymal Mills, but without much success. Subsequently, the participation of English players in the IPL has increased manifolds, with the likes of Alex Hales, Sam Curran, Tom Curran, Sam Billings, Liam Plunkett all plying their trade (20/n)

for various franchises. Meanwhile in the Big Bash League, which has rules to allow only 2 foreign players in each side for the season, has seen a lot of English players being roped in as first-choice overseas players for every single side. Be it the likes of Chris Jordan (21/n)

Liam Livingstone, David Willey, Jos Buttler, Tom Banton, Tim Bresnan, Ian Bell & James Vince have all turned out for various BBL sides and some of them have now become household names, with Jofra Archer being the biggest breakout star of English cricket through the BBL (22/n)

All these steps have seen England acquire a new-found level of consistency in ICC events since 2015, with a runners-up finish in the 2016 ICC World T20, semi-finals in the 2017 Champions Trophy or their success in winning the 2019 ICC World Cup. The rise of England (23/n)

as the new white-ball force has many lessons for teams to learn, especially India, that for success in the white-ball game, it is critical to identify & blood specialists in this format, else you'll be laid waste on the sidelines. (24/n)

What do you guys think of my "Thesis" @Fancricket12 Sir, @CricSubhayan Sir, @thefallingsweep Sir, @khurramaziz123 Bhai, @KhayamSays Bhai, @Gautaamm Sir, @cricketgyani_an, @CricCrazyJohns, @KOCricket528, @cricstater, @1tip1hand, @CricCrazyNIKS Sir, @CricketDave27, @victorgagan?

Would also want you guys to offer your views on this @sreshthx Sir, @sourabhsanyal Sir, @ArnabBasu21, @Plumb_infront, @robin_rounder Sir, @NorthStandGang, @deep_extracover, @elitecynic, @faahil.

@bhogleharsha Sir, @joybhattacharj Sir, I'd love to hear your views on this little thread I've written about England's white-ball resurgence, as you both have spoken about this on a few times.