For Maxwell, the prospect of playing in India with a white ball is not quite the scenario he had once wished for, and he mixed a sense of refreshment from missing nearly three months of cricket with regret about the slowness of the recovery process.

“I’ve been in constant touch with the selectors for a while now, and it probably hasn’t happened as fast as I’d like,” he said. “I probably would’ve liked to be playing a little bit earlier, but the fact I knew the timeline for the one day side and the realistic goal, I was able to manipulate my rehab program to fit that timeline I was racing against.

“After the World Cup last year I was pretty cooked, and it’s never nice to have a break of this magnitude, but it’s also not the worst timing to have a little bit of time away from the game and I did spend most of it in rehab, physio and gym sessions, but it was a nice little refresher. Hopefully this will extend a little bit of time at the back end of my career.”

As for Mitch Marsh, returning to the ODI team as a batter only in the later stages of his recovery from ankle surgery that caused him to miss the big Bash League, his reply to a question about what he had made of the Test series was succinct.

“I’m happy to be home,” Marsh admitted, “put it that way.”

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