#1 England (2.42)
Played: 69 Won: 46 Lost: 19 Tied: 1 N/R: 3 W/L ratio: 2.42
For the better part of the past 20 years, English cricket looked at white-ball cricket with disdain. It almost liked they were playing ODI cricket of a different era. To draw a parallel out of their approach, every time England batted pre-2015, it seemed they were riding on a Bullock cart while other teams were driving in a Ferrari.
It needed a catastrophic 2015 World campaign to wake them from slumber and look what has happened since then. An excruciatingly sedate mindset was replaced by an ultra-aggressive approach, with their batting setting a new benchmark with every passing day.
In Hales, Root, Buttler, Stokes, Ali, Morgan, Roy, and off-course skipper Eoin Morgan (England's highest ODI run-getter), the poms boast of a fearsome batting-order that is continually raising the bar for other teams to follow. Since the 2015 World Cup, England have scored 11 totals more than 350 (Before 2015:-2) and three 400 plus totals, the most recent being a World record 6-481 at the expense of Australia at Trent Bridge.
A true testimony to their surge as a limited-over powerhouse is reflected in the results. A (2-3) loss to the Proteas in early 2016 and (1-2) reversal in India notwithstanding, England proceeded to defeat New Zealand (3-2, both home and away), Pakistan (5-0), South Africa (2-1, home) and Australia (5-0 - home, 4-1- away) post the 2015 showpiece event.
While they still need to win a major World event to forever impinge their name in cricketing folklore, after having crashed out in the semi-finals of the 2017 Champions Trophy, no one can deny the giant strides English cricket has taken post the 2015 disaster.
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