Not since the Cricket World Cup final in 2019 had England been able to field all of Jason Roy, Jonny Bairstow, Joe Root, Ben Stokes and Jos Buttler in the same ODI XI.

Here, with the band reunited, fans held high hopes of witnessing some of the greatest batters English cricket has ever produced taking on a high-class Indian bowling attack for maxiumum entertainment.

However, it wasn’t to be. At least for England fans, as their side crumbled to 110 all out in just 25.2 overs, their second shortest ever all-out innings in a non-rain affected men’s ODI.

But for all of England’s frailties, much also has to be credited to Bumrah, whose figures of 6-19 were the third best ODI figures for an Indian bowler in history.

The first wicket to fall was that of Roy, whose poor run of form continued here as he went for a duck. Bumrah had already beaten him twice in the over with deliveries that swung and seamed viciously before Roy played-on to a wide delivery that rebounded onto his stumps, leaving England 6-1.

That would then become 6-2, as Root edged behind from Bumrah’s following over to leave England in a hole that was only going to get deeper. Stokes was the next to go as he fell for a golden duck to Mohammad Shami four balls later leaving England 7-3. Before today, Roy, Root and Stokes had scored 12,813 ODI runs between them. And yet today, none of them managed even one.

Jonny Bairstow was the next to depart, again to Bumrah as he edged behind, before Liam Livingstone became Bumrah’s fourth victim and also the fourth member of England’s top six to record a duck in the match, marking the first time that four players in the top six have recorded a duck in a single ODI innings since 2018 when England managed the same against Australia. Four ducks in the top six is a joint record in the ODI innings, with that Adelaide collapse the only other time England have suffered the ignominious fate.

At 26-5, it was the fourth lowest score England have ever been on in ODI cricket for the loss of five wickets, the lowest being when they fell to 8-5 in that Adelaide ODI against Australia in 2018.

Jos Buttler and Moeen Ali attempted a rebuild of sorts as the pair added almost 30 before Moeen chipped a drive back to Prasidh Krishna as England lost their sixth wicket with the score on 53.

Buttler had been the only England batter to show any real signs of form, but he too would be gone shortly after as he was caught on the square leg boundary for 30 and Craig Overton would fall just two overs later leaving England 68-8 and facing the prospect of recording their lowest ever ODI total, which stood at 86 all out which they scored against Australia in 2001.

Thankfully for England’s record books however, a Brydon Carse and David Willey partnership took them past the dreaded figure of 86 and all the way to three figures. England’s 100 was greeted by a standing ovation from The Oval crowd in mock celebration.

But the fun wasn’t to last long, as England were soon all-out for 110 as Bumrah picked up the final two wickets and also his fifth and sixth. His six-wicket haul was the second time he has taken five-for in ODIs and his best ever figures.