On presenter duties was one Greg James, the Radio One DJ who has come up through what we used to call yoof TV presenting: a boyish, affable sort of the Jake Humphrey school, and with a light ents rather than sports background.

He hosts Radio Five’s occasional Not Just Cricket talk show and is godfather to James Anderson’s child. An interesting choice of host by BT: suggestive of an attempt to target a younger audience, perhaps.

Along with a presenter not all that familiar to sports fans, the coverage had a similar freshness. Each evening has begun with a slick, music-backed montage of the action, and an artful use of slo-mo of the moments to savour, notably Australians bungling catches. And who doesn’t enjoy watching that?