The Australian cricket season, which runs essentially from October-March but peaks in the country’s summer and school holiday period, has been a mishmash for a long time.
Apart from the iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground’s Boxing Day Test match – starting on December 26 – and the Sydney Cricket Ground’s New Year’s Test, the rest of the calendar changes wildly every season causing widespread confusion, particularly to many casual fans that the sport tends to breed.
It has become something of an annual pastime debating how the ideal Australian cricket season should look like with administrators still seemingly searching for answers. Even the aforementioned SCG Test is not considered sacred with inclement weather badly affecting six of the last seven matches.
“We think there is great weight in historical matches…