Remember the Chappell Hadlee series in 2007. Three matches 330 odd both innings. No one batted an eyelid.
Yeah, Taylor, McMillan, and McCullum for NZ. Even Peter Fulton. A known boring cricketer scored at a big strike rate. Hayden, Hodge, Watson and Hussey run maximising for Australia.
Not particularly relevant in this series, but overall, we are seeing far better wicket keeper batsmen ubiquitously and two sometimes three allrounders per side, also increasing runs scored. Maxwell and Watson for Australia with MMarsh (almost Johnson included as well) being a prime example.
I like the way batsmen are playing the game today. The bowlers are responding by trying to take wickets because they know runs will happen. Its far better cricket than containment. That said, any bowler who can actually contain in the modern game, like Vettori or Shakib, is a superstar and worth their weight in gold.
Its taken a long time for the coaches and selectors to come from a generation that knows that old rules and addages of test cricket do not apply in One Day Cricket, and that holing out is not the worse sin for a batsmen, but 60 no off 100 balls is. And a 101* off 166 balls is inexecusable, not an innings to be celebrated.