1. England won’t have a permanent vice-captain… at least for now

Charlotte Edwards went for a significant proportion of her own captaincy without a permanent vice-captain, and that’s the model she plans to follow as head coach, at least initially as she works out who in the squad might have the necessary skills to deputise for NSB: “It’s a time where I want to just have a little look at what the squads are going to look like. I don’t want to make that kind of decision just yet.”

She did, however, say that she plans to create a broader “leadership group” which will initially rotate between players across different series and formats. That was something Jon Lewis said he had done, but there was never much evidence of the group actually contributing to team strategy – so it will be interesting to see how visible the “group” (or groups?) is during matches in future.

2. Get your “Heather Knight Is Bowling” klaxons at the ready

Lest there be any doubt, Edwards very much sees Knight as an integral part of the England line-up over the next 2 years: “She’s been great around the group. I genuinely think we’re going to see Heather Knight scoring a lot of runs over the next couple of years.”

The new coach also wants to see a lot more of Knight’s off-spin – which was rarely used in the last 2 years of her captaincy: “We’ve had some good chats around where I see her role in the team. I want to see her bowling more, which she was quite excited about.”

3. Edwards wants the England players to post less on social media

During the World Cup last October, a number of England players attracted criticism when they posted photographs of themselves out and about in Dubai – and then got knocked out of the tournament in the group stages. Edwards is stamping down on that pretty unequivocally:

“We’ve got to look at our professional behaviours and how we go about stuff. We’ve got to change people’s perceptions. We’ve got to stop putting stuff on social media that doesn’t need to be on there. If it’s not going to positively impact on them or us as a group, then it probably isn’t worth posting.”

4. England’s squad to face West Indies will be selected on 12 May – and Emma Lamb should probably stay quite close to her phone

The new national selector will be in post by then and the idea is for that person, Edwards and NSB to sit down together to select the team to face West Indies.

Asked who had particularly impressed so far in domestic cricket, one name came immediately to the fore: “The leading run-scorer is Emma Lamb. She’s performing well – that’s exactly what I’ve asked people to go and do,” Edwards said.