“Patience” is one of the words staring out at the viewer from the walls of the Australia dressing room and you don’t need much of it to get to the rationale for Amazon’s new eight-part series on the country’s cricket team. About 20 minutes into the first episode, in fact, for Justin Langer, the head coach, to spell it out: “There’s abuse and there’s banter. No more abuse. Plenty of talk, plenty of banter, but no more abuse.”

For the benefit of the rest of the world, the famous Australian line has been redrawn, just like that, and The Test: A New Era for Australia’s Team, co-produced by Cricket Australia (CA) and a local production company, is a helpful vehicle for the recalibration. Time