Ordinarily there’s a horrible “sports purgatory” which exists in Australia between the end of the footy season and the start of cricket.
But this year, we had a solid month of international cricket from mid-October to mid-November thanks to the T20 World Cup (plus several warm up games against England beforehand).
The usual fervour surrounding the start of meaningful international cricket was lost. By the time the Windies rolled into town, many Perth cricket fans had already got along to a T20, either their national team against Sri Lanka or England, or one of the several between two non-Australian teams.
Which helped factor into…