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Andy Flower on Tuesday allowed a brief moment of approval at a job wonderfully done by England - before they move on to the powerful challenge of staying on top of the world.
England took the last seven India wickets for only 21 runs at The Oval, to complete a 4-0 power Test series loss with an innings victory.
After the general elation had died down - and a sell-out swarm made their way home - Flower and Andrew Strauss' team held their own low-key celebration, transport a box of freezing drinks out to camp just off the square for a few moments to reproduce together on their attainment.
There will be valuable little time for any more of the same before a rush of England limited-over’s assignments begins when Test batsman Eoin Morgan lead his adopt country for the first time next to his native one in Dublin on Thursday.
There is much longer - five months till January when they head to the United Arab Emirates to take on Pakistan - for England to plan how they protect their new world-beating Test status.
While Flower is noted for his confrontation to the smallest amount hint of satisfaction, and can be count on to be thinking already about the way forward in all formats, he adjudicators it only right too that England are given due praise for their rise to the top of the International Cricket Council Test rankings.
"It gives me wonderful fulfillment, but it is the players we have to think about," said the coach. "I look at them in the changing room after the game, and they can rightly feel very proud of themselves.
"They've put in a wonderful amount of hard work to get themselves into a place where they feel very confident and where they are creation good decisions - and then are good sufficient to back them up out in the middle."
England's winning recipe has centered on collective support for one more towards a common aim, but it has also been achieve on the back of a stream of exceptional individual performances.
Ian Bell's creative batting form has been a exposure over the past 12 months; Stuart Broad was named man of the series for his all-round heroics, especially in the second Test on his home ground in Nottingham; and Kevin Petersen is back to somewhere near his substantial best.
There is no one in the team, though, undeserving of special mention. Flower believes success is reproduction success - and insists England's forceful victory should not be devalue by those decry India, for whom only Rahul Dravid has perform in keeping with his status among a clutch of superstars.
"It is nice to see the team like that and see them actually sure and it's nice to see them believing that they will win games of cricket.
"They have conquered a very good side here, and I don't think we should forget that.
"There are some very fine cricketers in that Indian side, and they have been drama at a high level for a very long time.
"They are hugely knowledgeable - so to play like we did and to rule them like we did is a great credit to these England players."
Bell, Petersen and Alastair Cook have each made double-centuries over the past month - a clear response to batting coach Graham Gooch's familiar call to make 'daddy hundreds'.
But as they look towards those supplies which must be met to beat the likes of Pakistan, Sri Lanka and - a winter on - India again away from home, England's batsmen knows more of the same is a must.
Oval man of the match Bell has obviously got the message. He averages more than 118 this calendar year, and has made 950 runs, but will prize major contributions in the sub-Continent even more highly - and is challenging himself and his team-mates to outdo the efforts of several previous generation by making England's first 200-plus individual scores in Asia for almost 30 years.
"I think when we get out to the sub-Continent it's about getting big scores," he said. "I'm not certain when anyone last got a double-hundred out there. That'll be the goal.
"Goochie will be approaching us hard - because with our bowling attack, we know if we get big scores on the board in the first innings we can win Test matches. "We've complete it well here; we've now got to take it abroad, where we've not done it so well in the past," Flower completed.
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