The cricket-lover knows that a Test match – let alone a Test series – lasts long enough for the full sweep of human comedy to be on show. Ambition; petulance; perfection all too fleeting; horrible failure; hilarious pratfalls; selflessness and honour: it’s all in a day – or in five day’s play. Test cricket has so many inbuilt dramatic elements – a recurring cast of twenty-two characters, a series of acts-slash-matches, scene-stealing stars, bit parts, bitter rivalries and long-held grudges – that the real mystery is why no one thought to lavish the full documentary treatment upon it until The Test, Amazon Prime’s high-profile series about the Australian men’s Test team, now in its third season.