England's sudden change of pace in 50-over cricket has brought them five of their seven all-time highest one-day international totals in just the last eight months.
Here, Press Association Sport charts the dramatic improvement:
June 9, 2015 - 408 for nine, v New Zealand at Edgbaston
The revolution begins, with England's 'daddy' total to date in this statement of intent. They promised to shed the shackles that wrecked their World Cup four months previously, and centurions Joe Root and Jos Buttler did the deed in a 210-run win. Fourteen sixes in the innings was also a new national record - but not for long.
June 12, 2015 - 365 for nine, v New Zealand at The Oval
Three days later, and England were at it again - yet in defeat this time, as New Zealand landed the next blow to level a power-packed series. The hosts fell 13 runs short, on Duckworth-Lewis, but had already proved Birmingham was no fluke.
June 17 - 350 for three, v New Zealand at Trent Bridge
England had made a mere 302 all out, well inside their 50 overs, to lose in Southampton - but up to Nottingham, they levelled the series again with a display of massive potential. Thanks to Root once more and this time captain Eoin Morgan, both with hundreds in a stand of 198, England cruised past a target of 349 for seven - with six overs, and seven wickets, to spare.
November 20, 2015 - 355 for five, v Pakistan in Dubai
This one was all about Buttler. Promoted to number four, with England already setting a decent total on the back of Jason Roy's maiden international hundred, the wicketkeeper-batsman - back against the white ball after losing form and being dropped from the Test team - smashed his own record for England's fastest hundred, from 61 balls to 46. Unsurprisingly, it was all too much for their desert hosts as England won the series 3-1.
Feb 3, 2016 - 399 for nine, v South Africa at Bloemfontein
England began the series in South Africa with their highest overseas total, Buttler to the fore again. Promoted to four for the second successive match, by his standards a 73-ball hundred was sedate. But others went big at altitude too - and with three more individual half-centuries, England upped that innings six-hitting record to 15 on the way to a 39-run D/L win.
Source: PA
