The room in which we are seated can be no more than four square metres, but Jonathan Trott reckons it would be just perfect. “I actually want to get us all in a space like this,” he says. “Lock the door. Put a few beers out. See what happens.”

The ‘us’ is England’s cricketers between 2009 and 2014 who, having soared to the unprecedented height of world number one in all three forms of the game, would nosedive in equally spectacular fashion.

A culture of “mocking, bullying and ridicule” was what Kevin Pietersen alleged in his autobiography and, with every other player having also had their say in the five years that have passed, Trott now senses the chance to draw a line.

“Whenever I do a Q&A, I get asked about Swann, Prior, Pietersen, Broad - all that stuff,” he says. “I always say, ‘Prior and Pietersen - the two Ps. The two inches between their names on the autograph bat is the closest you will ever get them back together’. It is a huge shame.

“There were a lot of individual people but I think to be an international sportsman you have be very individual. What we did for that period of time is get all the individuals going in the same direction; all focussed on the same prize. It was very powerful. I would prefer that than having 11 good team guys, not quite sure where they are going, and just worried about being good team-mates.”