Wisden Cricket Monthly columnist, UK editor of ESPNcricinfo and former editor of The Cricketer @miller_cricket
A flurry of messages came my way around the start of last month – all of them a variation on the same theme: “So it was you, you bastard …” To be clear, none of these came directly from Brendon McCullum or Rob Key, although you sense they would have shared the sentiment had they known where to direct their ire. For despite overseeing England’s most captivating run of Test performances since the 2005 Ashes, neither head honcho seems particularly grateful for the catch-all phrase that has been adopted to describe their rebooted fortunes.