The last time the Cricket World Cup came to England was 1999. Manchester City were still in Division Two; 230 was often a match-winning score in one-day international cricket; and England hoped that Ian Austin and Vince Wells would win them the World Cup.

This is how the game has been transformed since - and what’s stayed the same.

Different rules

Tweaks in the rules are often underrated drivers of change in sport. In basketball, the introduction of the three-point line created a new breed of long-range shooter, making traditional players who dominated the space below the rim less important. In football, the abolition of the back-pass rule in 1992, banning goalkeepers from handling back-passes, encouraged defenders adroit at passing the ball out.

Perhaps no major sport has tinkered with its rules as ceaselessly as ODI cricket. Consider what has been introduced since 1999 and subsequently been scrapped: batting and bowling Powerplays, with teams given the option of when to implement fielding restrictions; changing the ball after 35 overs; and a supersub, a 12th player able to bat and bowl.