However even that stat can be misleading, especially as England's two latest matches took place on the batting paradiseof Bangalore - and when we dig a bit deeper at England's recent batting a worrying pattern emerges.
Surprisingly, the conceit of looking down from heaven works nicely, since Ms Sebold avoids the precious, making Susie's paradise agreeably ordinary, a place where the dead learn to let go of the living while below the living learn to let go of the dead.