England's white-ball home summer ended as it began — with a sobering T20 defeat in Southampton. And if the first of those matches, against India, suggested a change of era, the second, against South Africa, confirmed it.
In 12 white-ball matches squeezed into 25 days, Jos Buttler's side have fallen dismally short of the standards set under Eoin Morgan. Four games have been won, seven lost. If rain had not ruined the deciding ODI against the South Africans at Headingley, the ledger would have been worse.
Put simply, the days when England's white-ball teams expected to win are a thing of the past.