“Ashes cricket always has a different edge to it, and that in itself will get everyone going,” Root said at The Oval, a day after England won their first-ever World Cup title, after edging out New Zealand by the thinnest of margins at Lord’s. “It’s what we set out to do two or three years ago, and we’re halfway there.”

“Ultimately, the confidence this will give the guys to take into a series like that – especially the way we’ve played against Australia at Edgbaston in that semi – the guys involved will relish that and want more of that,” he said.

“Having achieved what we’ve achieved here, there will be talk about us going one step better and picking ourselves up off the back of it. It’s something I’m really looking forward to, and it’ll be massive, especially on the back of this. It’ll make it even bigger.”