ADAM COLLINS
Wisden Cricket Monthly Australia correspondent @collinsadam
Return to normalcy’ is a phrase that has appeared in many columns of late, specifically relating to the demise of Donald Trump. There’s nothing new about it, of course, first being used as a campaign slogan a century ago by Warren Harding to earn himself a thumping US presidential victory after World War I. But with my mind hardwired as it is, when considering this proposition I drifted off into thinking about what constitutes ‘normalcy’ for Australian cricket.
It certainly wasn’t how you’d describe the week of the American election four years ago, when Steve Smith’s men were routed for 80 by South Africa in Hobart, losing their fifth Test on the bounce. The response was vicious, with six changes made to the XI for their next outing.