Archer’s 60 runs across the three matches was better than Phil Salt (30), Jamie Smith (24), Harry Brook (47) and Liam Livingstone (33).
No wonder England’s Champions Trophy has been so awful.
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Read MoreArcher has shown flashes of his quality, including taking two wickets in this final, humiliating seven-wicket defeat by South Africa in Karachi on Saturday.
Everyone else has been found wanting.
And these are months in which England need a wicketkeeper-batter who took Test cricket by storm last summer to fire again in huge Test series at home to India and away to Australia.
Salt has not so much underperformed in this tournament but gone positively subterranean.
Opting for a T20 approach in a format where there is time to craft a proper innings has been his downfall. But does he even know how to construct a one-day innings?
England’s white-ball form has been a disaster (Photo: Getty)Livingstone, too, seems incapable of mastering his role as a finisher. When he comes in at No 7 late on in innings he invariably goes too hard and fails. When he comes in early, as was the case in this mauling by South Africa, he invariably goes too hard and fails.
Brook, too, stunk the place out during an innings of 19 against South Africa, his form this winter a signal that perhaps the responsibility of succeeding Jos Buttler as captain come the summer might not be for him.
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Read MoreAnd will the negativity of this doomed Champions Trophy campaign infect the wider Test set-up? This was always the danger when McCullum took over as coach across all formats, especially because he has aligned the two camps more since coming in last month.
“I’m a positive person and like to make a positive environment,” McCullum said after this defeat.
“I think we’re a little further down the road with that. It’s not hard to see this is a slightly different task and we’ve got to put plans in place for the demands of white-ball and separate that.”
“You know what Stokesy is like – uber-confident, a great man-manager, a guy who can get the very best out guys,” McCullum added.
And at the end of a white-ball winter where the New Zealander has lost 10 of his first 11 games in charge and taken a reputational hit in the process, we’re all left wondering was it Stokes all along who was the real architect of the Bazball revolution?
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