Six matches against Sri Lanka have seen two wins and four defeats. It appears that when it comes to England's limited-overs teams, it's more of the same from Peter Moores.
Still, a chance to level the scores will come over the next fortnight in the two-Test series. And to quote Frozen, for the first time in forever, nobody in April could have predicted with any certainty the 12 names selected to travel to Lord's for the first five-day affair since Sydney in January.
Below, I give the England team I would have liked to have seen picked and give my thoughts on the other names who were included in the squad.
My England XI
1. Alastair Cook - Needs runs in all formats, but his place in the Test side is not under threat. Fortunate to remain captain.
2. Sam Robson - Scored heavily last season and in the winter. Should have come into the side at Adelaide during the winter when Jonathan Trott went home.
3. Nick Compton - Would not make for the most exciting top three, but could mirror the Strauss-Cook-Trott axis which set-up many series wins. With Trott unavailable, Compton is the best replacement and has an appetite for batting long.
4. Ian Bell - In my view, he should be captain. Wants to bat at 4 and will look to continue his excellent early-season form.
5. Gary Ballance - ODI struggles aside, his first-class record in the last 12 months means he deserves his place.
6. Ben Stokes - Just back from injury, but if he's fit then he should be in. Just like Prior and Broad who have been fast-tracked back in.
7. Matt Prior - A difficult 2013 but he still maintains an average of 40 in the longer format and is a normally reliable keeper. Possibly under-estimated just how important he is to England.
8. Chris Jordan - Has proved himself to be ready for international cricket and has shown the necessary red-ball form as well. Important to have bowlers who can bat.
9. Stuart Broad - Did not receive enough credit for his Ashes performance and has outshone Anderson for the past year.
10. James Anderson - A few mutterings that Jimmy was no longer undroppable. With few stand-out alternatives to come in, and a strong start to the season, let's hope an Easter break will see him back to top form.
11. Simon Kerrigan - With Monty Panesar clearly out of favour, Kerrigan is England's best spinner and deserves another go.
The Rest
Chris Woakes - Another who has suffered the Kerrigan treatment of being judged from one Test match. Consistently one of the best bowlers in the country and a very good bat. Deserves his place in the side even if it is just for one Test.
Jos Buttler - I'm not a fan of using ODI performances when it comes to picking the Test team. The benefit of bringing players like Buttler, Jordan and Stokes into the limited-overs side is to see if they have the bottle for international cricket. All three have proven that they do. Now, it is time for Buttler to take a step away from the limelight and work on his first-class batting and wicket-keeping. That way, should Prior suffer injury or another loss of form, he will be ready for the challenge.
Moeen Ali - Has played well and deserved his place, but too much of a bits-and-pieces cricketer for my liking. Appears to be a second spinner and decent batsman, but long-term England will be better off with a man who can consistently dismiss international players. Will be interesting to see how Moeen bowls should he be picked.
Liam Plunkett - Apparently picking former England wicket-keepers is going back in time, but picking a seamer who has not played a Test for seven years is ok. Plunkett has been possibly the stand-out pace bowler in county cricket this season. He was bowling late-80s in a televised game against Durham and is getting his wickets through hostile bowling in a manner reminiscent of a certain left-handed Australian.
Still, I would like to see Plunkett given another month of county cricket to see if he can retain this form and allow Broad to be England's enforcer. If Plunkett can continue the way he is playing then unleashing him on the Indian batsmen could be fun to watch.
Joe Root - Australia clearly fancied their chances against Root, who struggled for the majority of the two Ashes series. Shunted around the order, he deserves sympathy. But watching him tell himself against Sri Lanka to get his front-foot forward, and having seen him trapped lbw for Yorkshire on at least a couple of occasions this season, it appears that he is not fully at ease with his game.
That is no surprise, as few Test batsmen have a perfect technique, but with few early season runs to go by, it might be wise to see him work on these issues in a confident Yorkshire side. There's no point scoring well against two of the weaker attacks in world cricket this summer only to suffer the same issues when he faces New Zealand and Australia in 2015.
One thing to beware
Stuart Broad plays in all formats. He bowls, bats and captains the Twenty20 team. He proved in the winter that, aged 27, he has reached his prime with the ball and could one day captain England in more than one format.
It is a worry, therefore, that he has suffered with tendonitis in his right knee and will most likely need surgery at the end of the season. His county coach (and England selector) Mick Newell believes he should give up the 20-over game to protect himself from injury.
The worry with Broad is that he has played international cricket since 2006, which for bowlers on that never-ending treadmill is a long-time. In that period he has played 231 international matches.
His body has broken down before, and with England playing five Tests against India inside six weeks over July and August, he will face a huge physical challenge.
Broad grew up idolising Glenn McGrath and struggled to know how he should bowl in the Test side. Originally billed as a McGrath clone who could bowl a consistent line and length, his pace and aggression often saw him bowl too short a length, before making the necessary changes later on in his career.
In the week that Andrew Flintoff announced his return to competitive cricket, it's important to make sure the man who was billed as Freddie's heir following the 2009 Ashes does not fade so badly through the strain on his body.
Flintoff was famed for his huge bowling efforts; five times he bowled 50 overs or more in a Test match. Against Sri Lanka as captain, he ploughed through 51 in a single innings, such was his desire to win.
Broad, by contrast, has only reached that number of overs twice, both times coming in 2012. However, based in a four-man attack for the vast majority of his 67 Tests, he has had to bowl a large amount of overs.
With Ben Stokes' emergence allowing for five bowlers, it is time to let someone else put in the long overs. Broad can bowl a similar pace to Mitchell Johnson and from a good height. He has an ability to run through a team in a session and change the course of a match.
At an age where he is at his peak, when England need its senior players to lead, with an injury that needs managing, and with a schedule that will punish his body, it's time to make Broad our strike bowler.
And finally...
Cook, Bell, Root, Ballance. England's top four in ODIs. It was Peter Moores' first series so let's call it a watch-and-learn period. But as everyone in the media is telling him, things have to change.
