England started their five-match Royal London One Day Series in "close to perfect" fashion, with a 210-run triumph against New Zealand, the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup runners-up at Edgbaston yesterday.
England's total of 408/9 was their highest in one-day internationals and the margin of victory was England's biggest in 44 years in the 50-over format, with Jos Buttler and Joe Root impressing with the bat, smashing the second and fourth fastest one-day hundreds for England, from 66 and 71 balls respectively.
Following the dismal World Cup, England delivered on the promise to play aggressive cricket against New Zealand.
It was pretty spectacular, outstanding, said Morgan. You can look back and wonder about the World Cup, but today I am looking forward and I am really excited.
Considering it is the first game of the series, and with more younger guys in our squad than we would like if the next World Cup was around the corner, it was as close to perfect as you will find.
I am surprised it has happened so quickly, and given that we had two or three new faces we were brilliant.
The previous meeting between the two teams in Wellington back in February, saw New Zealand reach 125 from 12.2 overs to win by eight wickets.
England just kept coming at us, Kiwi captain Brendon McCullum said. They blew us off the park. We knew they would be positive, but did not expect them to score 400.
The five-match Royal London one-day series continues at the Kia Oval on Friday and Morgan identified the challenge to the new-look side as striking the same tempo on a regular basis.
For a long time we have talked about a new brand of cricket and here we produced it, said Morgan. Now we have to show consistency, but this is a huge high and a great benchmark to set.
If you look at the guys who scored the runs, the method in which they scored them was attacking cricket and that comes naturally to them. That is crucial because normally over a period of time we go into our shells.
It is the way the game is played in England because the ball moves around, and slowly but surely we have to go to the other end of the spectrum and stop playing safe cricket. This is a big step towards that.
After the five-match one-day international series between England and New Zealand, Old Trafford will host a NatWest International T20 between the two teams and England will take on Australia in the shortest format in Cardiff on August Bank Holiday Monday. Tickets are still available
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