David Warner and Aaron Finch opening partnership in ODI win over India becomes one of Australia’s best

In the modern cricket world, though the format bobs up here and there, it’s hard to escape the feeling that one-day international cricket is gradually vanishing.

In Australia’s last home summer the men’s team wasn’t scheduled to play any 50-over cricket.

Three games against New Zealand were tacked on at the end of March, then the first was held in empty stadiums thanks to the emerging pandemic, before the rest were abandoned altogether.

In the intervening months the team managed three matches in England in the middle of the night Australian time.

Now with the current home season getting underway on Friday, the games have vanished for three-quarters of the possible audience, hidden behind a television paywall in a decision that ranks among…