The visits of England’s power-hitting Golden Generation to Trent Bridge are increasingly starting to evoke The Fast Show’s 13th Duke of Wybourne: Us? Here? With our reputation?

In the five ODIs at Trent Bridge since England’s post-World Cup makeover – or rather, white-ball personality transplant – they have chased down 350 against New Zealand with six overs to spare, had a relatively sedate 286-apiece tie with Sri Lanka, then twice broken the world record, scoring 445 against Pakistan and a mammoth 480 last month against Australia. West Indies can consider themselves lucky their ODI at the venue last year was abandoned.

These games have produced the second, third and fourth highest ODI match aggregates ever in England, with only the 763-run blitz at the Oval against New Zealand in 2015 – the third highest in all ODIs – eclipsing them (and had Pakistan or Australia made a better fist of their admittedly daunting chases, that record would surely have tumbled, too).

Imagine, for argument’s sake, you set the figure at 300 for an ODI. Do you really want every game hovering around that mark? Wouldn’t that be the greater sin of homogenisation? Surely, you want variety not standardisation. The point is that the balance of bat and ball – insofar as this value can ever be properly calibrated – should be across a series, not identical from game to game. Just as a slow, grabby pitch and a tense 210-ish game can be thrilling, so too can 400 apiece. Sure, you wouldn’t want five ‘Trent Bridges’ in an ODI series – that would be overkill, maybe overdose – but why not have one game each series where the teams just strap in and floor it from ball one?

Such matches are fast becoming Trent Bridge’s USP. And – whisper it – maybe it’s what the public want to see. At least, some of the time.