But when Chris Jordan sealed a hat-trick to send the final dregs of the USA's innings down the plughole, the feels out in the middle were real.
Kensington Oval is where Jordan caught the bug as a kid, be it the inter-school finals he played in for Combermere or the international cricket watched; the ground where, aged five, he came to watch his first Test match between West Indies and England in 1994 and was transfixed by the buzz in the stands, the sound of conch shells being blown.
As such, even factoring in limited opposition and the greater prevalence of hat-tricks in Twenty20 cricket-just ask Pat Cummins, owner of two already in this tournament Jordan's delight upon detonating Saurabh Netravalkar's middle stump was unbridled. The No 11 was also his fourth wicket in five balls, the USA crumbling to 115 all out after being stuck in and England then vaporising the target for a 10-wicket scoreline.
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